Court Opinion

ID: 9683170
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 13:23:46.194776+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:17:45.849709
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SIMPSON, Justice
(dissenting).
If the question were original I would concur in the majority opinion that the testimony with reference to Dr. Hughston was inadmissible as hearsay because the Hussey case seems to exposit the better rule.
But the question is not original and the rule of the Grammer case has prevailed in this jurisdiction for some fifteen years and was the governing rule of evidence which the trial Judge was required to follow in the instant case. And no doubt many other cases not brought up for review have also been governed by this latter case.
The rules of evidence touching the admissibility of expert testimony are not always exact, but at times somewhat adumbrant, and since the holding in the Grammer case does not impress me to be so unreasonable I would not overrule it.
I therefore respectfully dissent.
LIVINGSTON, C. J., concurs in the foregoing dissent.