Stein v. Ohlhauser

VOGEL, Judge.

This is an appeal from an order granting a new trial to the plaintiff, Stein, on the basis of the trial court’s decision that it erred in allowing in evidence the opinion testimony of an expert witness as to the speed of a motor vehicle, based on skid-marks and other factors, including physical damage to the vehicles involved in a collision.

Stein had the right-of-way at an intersection which was protected -by a stop sign. Ohlhauser, the defendant, after having stopped at the stop sign, proceeded into the intersection and into the path of the Stein car. Ohlhauser claims that Stein…