Opinion
[No. 78, October Term, 1935.]
Decided January 16, 1935.
Injuries to Truck — Evidence — Cost of Repairs — Book Value — Harmless Error.
In an action on account of injuries to plaintiff's truck tractor, the fact that the claim in the declaration was for the value of the tractor, as if totally destroyed, did not render testimony as to the estimated cost of repairing the tractor irrelevant, when, this cost exceeding the value of the tractor, the evidence was offered merely to show why repairs were not undertaken, and to justify the claim for the tractor's value.
An officer of a corporation could testify as to the book value of a tractor belonging to the corporation, when this book value was intended to represent the real value, by the making of a yearly charge off of twenty-five per cent of the original value.
The exclusion of a question to a witness is not prejudicial if the subsequent testimony of the witness gives the information sought by the question.
Decided January 16, 1935.
Appeal from the Baltimore City Court (DENNIS, C.J.).
Action by W.T. Cowan, Inc., to its own use and to the use of the Home Insurance Company, against the Great Eastern Stages, Inc. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. Affirmed.
The cause was submitted on briefs to BOND, C.J., URNER, OFFUTT, PARKE, and SLOAN, JJ.
H. Beale Rollins and Daniel S. Sullivan, for the appellant.
Joseph T. Parr and Rome Rome, for the appellee.
Unreported cases.