MATOTT v. WARD


48 N.Y.2d 455 (1979)

Lloyd Matott, Respondent, v. Charles L. Ward et al., Appellants.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided November 29, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry A. Fischer for appellants.

Mahlon T. Clements for respondent.

Chief Judge COOKE and Judges JASEN, GABRIELLI, JONES, WACHTLER and MEYER concur.


FUCHSBERG, J.

In the main, this appeal requires us to consider the question, vital to the trial process, of the certainty with which the opinion of an expert witness — here a physician — must be expressed for it to have probative force.

The issue arises in a negligence suit emanating from a collision in early 1973 between a police car driven by plaintiff Lloyd Matott, a Deputy Sheriff of...

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