Hall v. Kimber

Plaintiff assigns as error the trial court’s ruling excluding her testimony that in her opinion defendant approached the intersection at a speed of 80 to 90 miles per hour. In this ruling there was no error. At the time the ruling was made, plaintiff had testified that when she first saw defendant’s car approaching, it was “four or five times the length of this courtroom away from us.” The courtroom was stipulated to be 40-feet long, so plaintiff in effect testified that she had observed defendant’s car while it traveled toward her over a distance of 160 to 200 feet. Had it actually been…