Charles W. Padgett v. Buxton-Smith Mercantile Company and Floyd R. Ehrmann

MURRAH, Circuit Judge.

In this suit for damages arising out of a highway accident in New Mexico involving the plaintiff-appellant’s automobile and the defendant-appellees’ truck, the trial court permitted a highway patrolman to testify as an expert for the defendant that from his observance of skid marks on the highway at the point of collision and the vehicles involved, it was his opinion that defendant’s truck was on its side of the road and the plaintiff’s car was across the center line. The suit went against the plaintiff-appellant on a jury verdict, and on appeal the appellant complains…