Crumrine v. Washington County Housing Authority

Dissenting Opinion by

Bell, J.:

With the possible exception of some psychiatric (opinion) testimony in murder cases, opinion evidence in land damage cases is often the most conjectural, unreliable and lowest kind of evidence ever allowed in a Court of justice: Cf. Phillips’s Estate, 299 Pa. 415, 423, 149 A. 719; Snyder’s Estate, 279 Pa. 63, 74-5. 123 A. 663.

To say that a trial Judge or a Court en banc abused its discretion by ordering a remittitur or granting a new trial because a jury’s verdict was supported by some opinion evidence, gives to such opinion evidence a weight and stature which is…