Crowley v. Snellenburg

Opinion by

Keller, J.,

We are compelled to sustain the fifth and seventh assignments of error, as there was no competent evidence in the case as to the value of the plaintiff ’s automobile after the accident. The court refused to permit Youtsey,- — who seems to have been the only witness in court competent to testify on that point, — to state the value of the ear when he saw it within a very short time after the accident; but let the jury infer that it was of no value at all, because the plaintiff said it was so smashed that he would not want to run it again even if repaired, and a witness,…