Hastings v. Steamer Uncle Sam

Citations

• 10 Cal. 341

Syllabus

<p>If any errors intervened on the trial of a cause, an order of the Court below, granting a new trial, ought not to be disturbed.</p> <p>The opinions of witnesses are generally admissible only when they relate to matters of science or art, or to skill in some particular profession or business.</p> <p>Where, in an action to recover damages occasioned to the plaintiff from his detention by the defendants, a witness was permitted to give his estimate of the value of the plaintiff's services per day, which he placed as high as one hundred dollars, and stated, as ground for his opinion, that the plaintiff was a speculator, possessed of large property, money invested in stocks, rents, and other sources of income, and frequently made from one to five hundred dollars per day: Held, that the testimony was inadmissible.</p>