Nunez v. Wilson

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Foth, C.:

This case is concerned with the trial court’s exclusion of portions of the testimony of a physician because his expert opinion was not expressed in terms of “reasonable medical certainty.” The doctor’s testimony was given by a deposition which was read into evidence at the trial.

The facts of the accident are not presently in dispute. On October 27, 1969, Louis Nunez, Jr. was driving his car in a southerly direction in the outside lane of a four-lane street when defendant, who was proceeding south in the inside lane, suddenly turned right and…