...resulting in the death of the declarant are incompetent.10 Expert witnesses may testify upon those matters which are peculiarly within the knowledge of men whose...experience or study enables them to speak with authority thereupon,11 and a nonexpert may testify as to certain matters derived from observation.13 Proof of...

...cases In which the conclusions to be drawn by the Jury depend upon the existence of facts which are not common knowledge and which are peculiarly within the...enables them to speak with authority upon the subject If, In such cases, the jury with all the factj before them can form a conclusion thereon. It Is their...

...v. Milliken (163 NY 527, 533) where the conclusion that could be drawn by the jury depends upon the existence of facts which are not of common knowledge...Div. 457, 461) in which a building in the course of reconstruction collapsed, whereby plaintiff's intestate was killed. An official who had inspected the...

...cases in which the conclusions to be drawn by the jury depend on the existence of facts which are not common knowledge and which are peculiarly within the...enables them to speak with authority upon the subject. If, in such cases, the jury, with all the facts before them, can form a conclusion thereon, it is their...

..."within the range of ordinary training or intelligence." Accordingly, there was no reason to resort to "the knowledge of men whose experience or study enables them to speak with authority." 40 NY2d at 148, 351 NE2d at 740, 386 NYS2d at 91. Kulak represents the traditional view. Since the...

...NE 757, 79 Am. St. Rep. 608, where the conclusion that could be drawn by the jury depends upon the existence of facts which are not of common knowledge,...applied in Nelson v. Young, 91 App. Div. 457, 461, 87 NY Supp. 69, in which a building in the course of reconstruction collapsed, whereby plaintiff's...