PADGETT v. BUXTON-SMITH MERCANTILE COMPANY

No. 5917.

262 F.2d 39 (1958)

Charles W. PADGETT, Appellant, v. BUXTON-SMITH MERCANTILE COMPANY and Floyd R. Ehrmann, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit.

November 20, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eugene E. Klecan and William J. Bingham, Albuquerque, N. M., for appellant.

James C. Ritchie and Ray H. Rodey, Albuquerque, N. M., for appellees.

Before MURRAH, PICKETT and BREITENSTEIN, Circuit Judges.


MURRAH, Circuit Judge.

In this suit for damages arising out of a highway accident in New Mexico involving the plaintiff-appellant's automobile and the defendant-appellees' truck, the trial court permitted a highway patrolman to testify as an expert for the defendant that from his observance of skid marks on the highway at the point of collision and the vehicles involved, it was his opinion that defendant's truck was on its side of the road and the plaintiff's car...

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