Shaw v. Sylvester

Plaintiff presents three assignments of error: (1) Failure to permit Sgt. Etherage to give his opinion that Becker was thrown from the loft door of the Ford; (2) failure to hold Sgt. Ether- age qualified as an expert “in the field of highway traffic reconstruction”; (3) failure to permit the plaintiff to go to the jury.

The evidence in the case was ample to show, the defendant’s intestate was the owner and one of the two occupants of the vehicle at the time of the wreck. It is ample to show that the driver was operating at approximately-80 miles per hour and that driver negligence proximately…