Court Opinion

ID: 9772991
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 17:34:33.774611+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:31:49.609264
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GUDGEL, Judge,
concurring in part and dissenting in part:
I respectfully dissent from two portions of the majority opinion in appeal No. 84-CA-1021-MR. Clearly, the admission of Trooper Owens’ testimony as to the point of impact and as to the speed of the rescue vehicle was incompetent because appellees failed to sufficiently qualify him as an expert in accident investigations. Because the trooper’s testimony was admitted over objection in violation of the teachings in Alexander v. Swearer, supra, I would reverse the court’s judgment. Moreover, the record shows that the court’s failure to instruct the jury as to what it should do in the event it found that the drivers of both vehicles were negligent obviously confused the jury. This error, in my opinion, furnishes an additional independent ground for reversing the court’s judgment. Therefore, I would grant the appellants in appeal No. 84-CA-1021-MR a new trial; otherwise, I concur in the majority opinion in these appeals.