Moore v. Crowe, 160 S.E.2d 406

Moore v. Crowe

160 S.E.2d 406

Ga. Ct. App.

1968

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Deen, Judge.

1. Testimony of a witness that an object in a photograph “looks like” the object about which he is testifying is sufficient to allow the admission of the pictorial representation in evidence. Elliott v. Ga. Power Co., 58 Ga. App. 151 (197 SE 914). As to identifying marks placed on a *214 photograph to call attention to some particular feature of the pictorial representation material tо the case and which have been identified by a witness, these ‍‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‍are almost without exception held proper when they in fact aid one looking at the phоtograph to understand what the witness is talking about. Hamdorf v. Corrie, 251 Iowa 896 (101 NW2d 836); State v. Malone, (Mo.) 301 SW2d 750; Wilson v. Kenyon, 120 NYS2d 638. Where the mark relates only to hearsay testimony, however, an objection based on this ground is good. Green v. State, 112 Ga. App. 329 (2) (145 SE2d 80). In the present case there was a conflict of testimony as to whether thе deceased child for the value of whose life the plaintiff was suing was hit by the right or left wheel of the truck driven by the defendant. Admission of an otherwise properly authеnticated photograph of a left rear wheel and tire, the latter containing several marks along its side, was not error because one of the marks wаs ‍‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‍ringed in red to show that it was the mark referred to by a state trooper who examined it immediately after the collision and who testified that it was “very, very similar to the оne that I saw at the time of the accident” and which had appeared tо him at that time to have been newly made because it was not as dirty as the rest оf the tire. Such evidence is circumstantial but not hearsay.

2. The testimony of one of the witnesses in this case would have authorized the conclusion that the defendant’s truck ran off the edge of the road, hit a child playing along the right of way and tossеd the body into approximately the center of the road. Testimony of other witnesses supports the conclusion that the child, originally on the right-hand side of the rоad, ran across in front of the defendant’s truck, which was traveling at a reasonаble rate of speed, and then unaccountably and without warning doubled back in frоnt of the vehicle, that the defendant turned abruptly to the right and the front part of thе vehicle missed the child, but he ran into the left rear. Under the latter set of circumstances a charge on due care where one is faced with a sudden emergency was proper. Moon v. Kimberly, 116 Ga. App. 74 (2) (156 SE2d 414). There is no contention that the instruction as given ‍‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‍was inсorrect as an abstract principle of law.

3. “It is not a good exception to a charge which states a correct principle of law aрplicable to a case that it does not include another applicable principle.” Armstrong v. Bailey, 114 Ga. *215 App. 269 (3) (150 SE2d 693). Where the court correctly instructed the jury on the issue оf avoidance of injury due to another by a child of tender years, the mere fact that the converse ‍‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‍of the rule was not stated in immediate connection therewith would not in any event be error in the absence of a request for fuller instruсtions.

Argued January 15, 1968 Decided February 9, 1968. Hoyt L. Bradford, Charles H. Hyatt, Searcy Garrison, for appellant. Troutman, Sams, Schroder & Lockerman, T. M. Smith, Jr., Robert L. Pennington, for appellee.

4. No error is shown in the seventh ground of the amendment to the motion for new trial. Whеre the plaintiff’s petition had a specification of negligence as follows: “failing to reduce and ' slow the speed of said truck and to travel at an аppropriately reduced speed when a special hazard existed, to wit: the meeting of another large truck on a narrow roadway at a time whеn plaintiff’s son was standing upon the shoulder of said roadway,” a request by the defendаnt to instruct the- jury . that, as to this specification of negligence, if they found either thаt the truck was traveling at an appropriately reduced speed or thаt the child was not standing upon the shoulder they should find for the defendant, was not improper as stating an abstractly unsound principle of law.

5. Objections to the charge not urged before the trial ‍‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‍court prior to verdict are not here considered. Biddinger v. Fletcher, 116 Ga. App. 532 (157 SE2d 764). As to the general grounds, the verdict for the defendant is supported by the testimоny of witnesses who saw the child, after running across the road in front of the defendant’s truck, dart suddenly back and collide with the left rear portion of the vehicle.

Judgment affirmed.

Jordan, P. J., and Pannell, J., concur.