American Home Assurance Co. v. Stephens

Jordan, Presiding Judge.

1. The third and fourth enumerations involve objections to the testimony of a safety expert, a witness for the plaintiff, who testified that in his opinion the Volkswagen driven by the plaintiff’s husband was traveling at a speed of 35 m.p.h. at the time of the collision, and that the grade on the highway was “almost negligible” and “not over 1%.” It is argued that the testimony should have been rejected because the expert never went to the scene of the accident, never saw the vehicles involved, and based his opinion on an examination of photographs.

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