SCHREIBER v. ESTATE OF KISER

No. G018084.

80 Cal.Rptr.2d 153 (1998)

Faith Dawn SCHREIBER, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. ESTATE OF Donald Wayne KISER et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District, Division Three.

Review Granted March 24, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bisnar & Associates and Brian D. Chase, Newport Beach, for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Michael Maguire and Associates, Steven G. Winder and Paul Kevin Wood, Costa Mesa, for Defendants and Respondents.


OPINION

SILLS, P.J.

I

Using medical experts to show the cause of an effect is not new. In 1742, James Annesley was charged with murder for shooting a poacher. The case turned on whether Annesley shot the poacher accidentally or intentionally. Annesley hired a surgeon to testify as an expert witness on his behalf at trial in London's Old Bailey. The surgeon said that he introduced a probe into the poacher's wound and traced the path of the bullet...

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