Cobb v. R. W. Beasley Construction Co.

FLANIGAN, Judge.

This is an action for damages. Plaintiffs are the owners of a bridge which, their petition claimed, was negligently damaged by the defendant. A jury found for the defendant and judgment was entered on the verdict. Plaintiffs appeal.

Plaintiffs’ sole point on appeal is that the trial court committed error in refusing to permit plaintiffs’ expert witness to state his opinion as to the cause of the damage to the bridge.

Dispositive of this appeal, and fatal to plaintiffs’ position, was the failure of plaintiffs’ counsel to make an offer of proof showing that the expert had an…