Heineman v. Wilson

In this, an action for damages resulting from injuries occurring in an automobile collision between the parties, the defendant appeals from a judgment entered upon a verdict by a jury.

The trial court refused to permit the defendant to testify that there was a dispute between him and his insurer as to the coverage in question. In response to an inquiry as to whether he carried insurance, he answered that he did not know whether it covered this litigation. Even under the former rule of practice, promulgated by this court under its constitutional authority in Jessup v. Davis, 115 Neb. 1, 211 N.…