Higgins v. Lufi

OPINION

PARKER, Judge.

This appeal brings into question the propriety of a trial court’s sanction under Rule 37.02(2)(b), Minn.R.Civ.P., excluding expert testimony because of a direct and willful failure on the part of appellants’ trial attorney and the expert witness himself to obey the court’s order that the expert be deposed. Appellants contend further that the trial court’s refusal to grant a continuance of the trial and an additional adverse medical examination was an abuse of discretion constituting prejudicial error, that the court erred in allowing hearsay testimony as to a crucial…