State, Use of Stickley v. Critzer

The question herein involved is a narrow one: it is simply whether the trial judge abused her discretion in refusing to permit an expert witness to state to the jury his conclusion as to who was driving a motor vehicle at the time of an accident, which resulted in the death of appellants’ decedent.

The appellants, the surviving widow and infant children of the deceased, instituted suit against the appellee, alleging pecuniary loss and damage to the appellants as a result of the negligent operation of a Jeep, in which the deceased was a passenger, by the appellee. At the trial below, the…