NATIONWIDE MUT. INS. CO. v. SECURITY BLDG.

No. 7815SC869.

255 S.E.2d 590 (1979)

NATIONWIDE MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY v. SECURITY BUILDING COMPANY, Carolyn M. Meares, and Carl Meares, Jr.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

June 19, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bryant, Bryant, Drew & Crill, P. A. by Victor S. Bryant, Jr., Durham, for plaintiff-appellant.

Midgette, Page & Higgins by Keith D. Lembo and Thomas D. Higgins, III, Chapel Hill, for defendants-appellees.


MITCHELL, Judge.

The plaintiff first assigns as error the trial court's refusal to allow one of the plaintiff's witnesses to testify as to his opinion concerning the path the fire had taken and its point of origin. Generally, the opinion of a witness is inadmissible "whenever the witness can relate the facts so that the jury will have an adequate understanding of them and the jury is as well qualified as the witness to draw inferences and conclusions from the facts...

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