· 3/28/1973
Ganrud v. Smith
Citations
- 206 N.W.2d 311
- 1973 Iowa Sup. LEXIS 984
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- holding that an expert need not be a physician to give opinion testimony on the probability of loss of memory following head injury and a long period of unconsciousness
- holding that an expert — in this ease a physiologist — need not be a physician to give opinion testimony on the probability of loss of memory following head injury and a long period of unconsciousness
- lay opinion evidence inadmissible unless it will aid the jury in determining outcome and is based on special training, experience, or knowledge of witness
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Judges: Moore, Mason, Rawlings, Harris, Mc-Cormick
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