Martinez v. Jordan

OPINION

WREN, Judge.

The appellant, Salvador Martinez, raises two issues on appeal from a jury verdict in favor of the appellee, John R. Jordan: (1) that the trial judge permitted prejudicial and irrelevant testimony to come in over his objection and; (2) that the trial judge erred in refusing to instruct the jury on res ipsa loquitur.

Martinez was injured in the course of his employment while attempting to jump-start a grader from a pick up truck by the use of electric jumper cables. The complaint alleged that Jordan negligently connected the cables to the battery on the pick up truck and…