GLENN v. SMITH

No. 776.

142 S.E.2d 596 (1965)

264 N.C. 706

H. V. GLENN, Sr., Administrator of Herbert Vincent Glenn, Jr., Deceased, v. Brantley SMITH and Herbert Eugene Smith.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

June 18, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Everett, Everett & Everett, Durham, for plaintiff appellant.

Bryant, Lipton, Bryant & Battle, Durham, for defendant appellees.


DENNY, Chief Justice.

The appellant assigns as error the refusal of the court below to permit a traffic engineer, who was held by the court to be an expert in his field, to testify concerning his familiarity with a standard 1959 Ford automobile and whether or not he had an opinion as to whether a 1959 Ford automobile would "fishtail" (that is, swing to its left) under the conditions described by the witnesses.

Just what an automobile would or would not do...

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