Jerry Ray Barnes v. General Motors Corporation

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• holding admission of experiment was in error where plaintiff’s expert created a test “purporting to simulate the circumstances” of the accident at issue, yet did not conduct test under substantially similar conditions
• noting that conditions of experimental evidence need not be “precisely reproduced”
• to be substantially similar, a test must only “afford a fair comparison in respect to the particular issue to which the test is directed” (quoting Ill. Cent. Gulf R.R. Co. v. Ishee, Miss., 317 So.2d 923, 926 (Miss. 1975)
• qualification of witness is within trial judge's discretion

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