Supreme Court of North Carolina March 11, 1908 (Smith v. John L. Roper Lumber Co.)

Hoke, J.,

after stating the case: At common law, communications between patients and attending physicians were not regarded as privileged, and the matter has been very generally made the subject of statutory regulation. ,Our own statute, which substantially accords with the form more usually adopted in such legislation, provides as follows (Revisal, sec.