Cunningham v. McDonald

BERGER, Justice:

This is an appeal from a defense verdict in a personal injury action. Appellants, James J. Cunningham, Jr. and Trina Cunningham, were seriously injured when their automobile collided with a pickup truck driven by appel-lee, Evan McDonald. At trial, the parties gave very different accounts of the accident, and each side relied on medical experts to bolster their positions. The Cunninghams argue that an opinion given by McDonald’s expert, based on extrapolation of blood alcohol content, was inadmissible. They also complain that they were improperly precluded from cross-examining…