Court Opinion

ID: 9578093
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 21:41:24.775311+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:22:36.876247
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The following memorandum was filed June 2, 1959:
Per Curiam
(on motion for rehearing). Appellants take exception to portions of the following statement: “There was testimony by an expert witness called by Christifulli that a total of $31,000 would be a reasonable charge for the whole amount of electrical work which he had seen in the building, but it was not clear how much of the electrical work which he examined had been installed by Christifulli.”
After reviewing the expert’s testimony we conclude that the quoted statement is incorrect and it is withdrawn.
The expert testified in substance that a total of $31,000 would be a reasonable charge for the electrical work and fixtures furnished, $17,000 of which was for extras shown on a list supplied to him by Darby. While he testified that he counted the installations shown on the list, he twice *85bavoided specifying the number he counted in answer to questions put by the trial judge. The list was apparently the same list in which Darby claimed a number of outlets far in excess of the number shown by other evidence to have been installed. The court quite properly declined to give full weight to the expert’s testimony.
The motion for rehearing is denied with $25 costs.