Hicks v. Reavis

COZORT, Judge.

Two women were killed when the automobile in which they were riding pulled out in front of a car “travelling at a high rate of speed.” The trial court excluded opinion testimony on the actual speed of defendants’ automobile from plaintiffs witnesses who heard the sound of defendants’ vehicle prior to the collision but never saw the car moving. We find no error.

Plaintiff, administrator of the estate of his deceased wife, Julianna Maria Stephens Hicks, brought this wrongful death action against the estate of the driver of the automobile in which Mrs. Hicks had been riding, and…