National Bank of Bloomington v. Pickens

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE TRAPP

delivered the opinion of the court:

The controlling issue before us is whether the trial court erred in admitting into evidence the opinion testimony of an accident reconstruction expert. We find reversible error.

The defendants appeal from judgments upon jury verdicts in favor of plaintiff Bank, as administrator, for wrongful death, for funeral expenses incurred by Avem Thomas and for property damage to the vehicle of Komacker.

Pickens, an employee of Brada Miller Freight System, Inc., was driving its tractor semi-trailer, loaded with steel tubing north on U.S. 66,…