Show DOCTORS DOCTORS' CONFIDENCES CO S Court Pas la i c-i on UI Rights or r I IJa am amid anil Patient The rhe supreme court count yesterday J. handed I down an opinion in the case of or Louis vs the lie Railway 5 8 I Power r company reversing l' l Former Judge S. S W. W Stewart who tried the case casc December 7 1003 granted a motion motion mo mo- tion for 01 nonsuit ma made by counsel Corthe for Cor forthe or orthe the street railway company The su supreme supreme su- su preme premo court in its opinion orders th the tho lower court to set Ret aside tin tin- Judgment entered and anti grant a new v trial of oC th the case 1 was injured in ai an accident at ut atthe atthe the Intersection of street ear car 31 trac tracks K on y South and State t streets while Silo she was a pas passenger pasc-nger f n er on a Waterloo ear cor January Januar 13 13 1 1902 03 The company's physician phy phy- cared for fOI and assured him according to 10 the lie record In the he jane ase us that his injuries were slight ht and that his arm aria woul would soon noon get well A paper releasing tho lie company from flom rein all damages was sl signed by t t upon the company paying him His Ills arm aim grew worse and he lie now alleges cM that ho lie is permanently injured d and is cuing the tho company for 1 11 lie Alleges that he would not have signed the lie r release bat for fOI the tile representations inducements of or tho the company through its physician which he lie says were false falso and made with intention to c him and procure his signature signa ture ure to the tho release for an amount wholly inadequate to the real Icat damages sustained b by him The supreme court reviews re the tho lence lenco at some length and says that rom rent it it 1 as us it is IR the Jury might well ivell have havo found that the tho company's doctor violated tho the cs won law that a doctor cannot take lake advantage ad of ot tho the confidence lence growing aut ut of the relation of or physician in ant and patient and by misrepresentations or orther other ther unfair means or by Iy the thc exorcise if r undue Influence Induce his patient 10 0 o convey transfer or otherwise L Jose of or to such suli physician or other whom the physician may rep rep- in lit other oIlier capacities valuable right for Cor a wholly made made- o- o I mate luat consideration ion That he ho Judge jude erred when he lie did not sub Hub nit the lie case to thc lie Jury The opinion was written by Justice and amid Is concurred In by Jus- Jus ices aces Bartch and |