Travelers Insurance v. Thornton

1, 2. Under the decision in Thornton v. Travelers Ins. Co., 116 Ga. 121, it was left for the jury to say whether the *456injury was caused by the fall, and aggravated by the hernia, or whether the hernia was a contributing cause to the injury. A physician could give an opinion on hypothetical facts, on what he had heard other witnesses testify in the case, or on facts discovered by his own investigation. He could state what, in his opinion, would have been the effect of the blow to the plaintiff without a hernia, and what the effect of the blow with the hernia. An expert can testify as to what…