Autry v. General Motors Bop Assembly Plant

(After stating the foregoing facts.) The question is whether there is any competent evidence in the record which would support a finding that the disability which the claimant now suffers is the result of the accident of January 27, 1951. The defendant in error contends that there is none, since the matter of the cause of the disability is essentially one of opinion, and a lay witness is incapable of testifying when such testimony is necessarily a matter of expert opinion, such as whether a sore on the back caused the insured’s death (Johnson v. Aetna Life Insurance Co., 24 Ga. App. 431, 101…