Legal Opinion
Matott v. Ward
New York Court of Appeals
Decided November 29, 1979PublishedCited by 261 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
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Fuchsberg, J.
In the main, this appeal requires us to consider the question, vital to the trial process, of the certainty with which the opinion of an expert witness — here a physician — must be expressed for it to have probative force.
The issue arises in a negligence suit emanating from a collision in early 1973 between a police car driven by plaintiff Lloyd Matott, a Deputy Sheriff of St. Lawrence County, and the defendants’ van. The plaintiff received a verdict at the hands of the jury, and the judgment entered thereon has since been affirmed by a closely divided…
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