Goble v. Helms

WHICHARD, Judge.

Evidentiary Rulings

Defendants contend the court erred in overruling their objection to a lengthy hypothetical question to plaintiffs’ medical witness inquiring “whether [plaintiff-husband’s] broken neck and other injuries described could or might have been received in the accident?” They argue that the question failed to include relevant facts and included irrelevant ones.

When this case was tried, there was no requirement that expert testimony be in response to a hypothetical question. See G.S. 8-58.12 (1981). When used, however, “a hypothetical question which omits any…