Loper Et Al. v. Lumbermens Lloyds

(a) "Werent you surprised at that young fellow? Werent you surprised? A fine looking young doctor, whose parents, no doubt, had spent their last dollar trying to make out of him an honorable man -- and possibly did so; then, for him to come in here and for a few paltry dollars, I presume -- I dont know the amount of it -- come in here and change from black to white merely because of a letter from a lawyer who was wearing a blue suit. Werent you surprised at the doctor? That doctor knows just as well as you do and I do that this was not an accidental injury case. He knows that." (b) "Clyde wrote him another letter and said: Doc, old boy, we got a financial interest in this thing; lets see if we cant get together; lets see if we cant understand each other; what you got to testify to is this; you got to come up there and swear that in your opinion it is reasonably probable that such an accident, assuming he had one, produced his death. Well, I dont know what else was in the conversation, or what took place, how much money changed hands or what it did cost to get the doctor to do that. I dont know. It would take a lot for some doctors. It would take a lot for most of you to change from black to white. But something happened. The doctor said, I will go along with you; I will go along with you; you have got a financial interest. He came up here and on direct examination under Mr. Barnes he related that set of facts."