Alabama Great Southern R. Co. v. Mims

The trial court did not err in permitting Mrs. Mims to testify that she was close enough to the train to tell whether or not it slackened or increased its speed, and that she heard no screeching of wheels or grinding of the brakes like a train makes when stopping. The witness said that she had been seeing and hearing trains all of her life, and this testimony called for a mere shorthand rendering of facts as to which she could testify. McVay v. State, 100 Ala. 110, 14 South. 862; Rollings v. State, 186 Ala. 126, 34 South. 349.

Usually when a witness knows the thing he does not have to be an…