Dean v. Carolina Coach Company, Inc.

BRANCH, Justice.

Defendant assigns as error the ruling of Judge McKinnon in allowing Dr. Alexander Webb to express his expert opinion in answer to a hypothetical question, which defendant contends was defective by reason of being factually incomplete. By this assignment of error and its Exception No. 7, defendant also argued in the Court of Appeals that the Court’s failure to strike the unresponsive answer was error.. The Court of Appeals quoted and based its decision on the following rule found in 1 D. Stansbury, North Carolina Evidence § 137 at 452 (Brandis Rev.) :... In framing a…