Weatherford v. H. K. Porter, Inc.

WEIER, Judge.

Defendant H. K. Porter, Inc., appeals from a judgment rendered pursuant to a jury verdict in favor of plaintiff Harold Weatherford in the sum of $5,500. Plaintiff sustained an injury to his left index finger when a hydraulic jack attachment broke while plaintiff was using it and the jack in an effort to push out a dented fender on a van-type motor vehicle. Plaintiff’s theory of recovery was strict liability in tort. On appeal defendant contends among other things that plaintiff failed to prove that “the jack attachment was in a defective condition at the time it left the hands of…