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· 6/8/2004

Pilgrim's Pride Corp. v. Smoak

Citations

  • 134 S.W.3d 880
  • 2004 WL 1103332

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding an officer’s lay opinion about a collision caused by a defendant’s unsafe lane change was legally sufficient to support the jury’s finding that the defendant was seventy-five percent at fault for the collision
  • stating that investigating officer’s observations of the weather conditions, the intersection, the location of the two vehicles, and their respective damage “were admissible as rationally based on [the officer’s] perception and were helpful to the determination of who caused the accident.”
  • considering police officer‘s disclaimed expertise and finding in dictum that police officer not qualified to testify as 20 expert
  • bold font and capitalization omitted

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Judges: Morriss, Ross, Carter

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