Asplundh Manufacturing Division v. Benton Harbor Engineering

How courts have described this case

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• noting that a maintenance supervisor was competent to testify as to the cause of an accident when he had personally inspected the damaged parts
• noting that a maintenance supervisor was competent to testify as to the cause of an accident when he had personally inspected the damaged parts
• explaining that the rational basis prong of Rule 701 requires the lay witness' opinion to be \grounded either in experience or specialized knowledge\
• noting that Rule 701 “contemplates admission of lay opinions rationally based on personal knowledge so as to be helpful to the trier of fact” (emphasis added)
• noting difficulty in describing traits such as drunkenness, excitement, anger, nervousness, and the like, through descriptive means
• listing “competency of a person” as an example of the types of evidence allowed under Rule 701

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).