Nationwide Mutual Insurance v. Security Building Co.

MITCHELL, Judge.

The plaintiff first assigns as error the trial court’s refusal to allow one of the plaintiff’s witnesses to testify as to his opinion concerning the path the fire had taken and its point of origin. Generally, the opinion of a witness is inadmissible “whenever the witness can relate the facts so that the jury will have an adequate understanding of them and the jury is as well qualified as the witness to draw inferences and conclusions from the facts. If either of these conditions is absent, the evidence is admissible.” 1 Stansbury’s N.C. Evidence § 124, p. 388 (Brandis rev.…