Opinion ID: 2152784
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 7

Heading: plaintiffs' expert testimony

Text: The City claims the trial court erred in considering the testimony of plaintiffs' expert witness, Troutman, when Troutman clearly did not have hardly any experience in the specific area of classification specifications and lacked the educational qualifications and the hands on experience of the [City's] experts. Brief for appellant at 22. We interpret the City's brief as first arguing that Troutman was not qualified to render expert testimony in this case. However, the record reveals that the City did not object to Troutman's qualifications as an expert. A litigant's failure to make a timely objection waives the right to assert prejudicial error on appeal. Blue Valley Co-op. v. National Farmers Org., 257 Neb. 751, 600 N.W.2d 786 (1999). The City then argues that its experts, Svevad and Ottemann, were more qualified than plaintiffs' expert and that the court should have accepted their opinions instead of Troutman's opinion. This argument is similar to that advanced and rejected in the recent case of Norman v. Ogallala Pub. Sch. Dist., 259 Neb. 184, 609 N.W.2d 338 (2000), wherein the defendant argued that its expert was more qualified than the two experts called by the plaintiff. In Norman, we recognized that such an argument goes only to the weight of the testimony and that determining the weight that should be given expert testimony is uniquely the province of the fact finder. Id. See, also, Sherrod v. State, 251 Neb. 355, 557 N.W.2d 634 (1997). The City's assignment of error regarding plaintiffs' expert testimony is without merit.