Hitt v. Martin

CRANDALL, Presiding Judge.

Plaintiffs, Paul P. Hitt and Bonnie Gay Hitt, appeal from the judgment 1 of the trial court, entered pursuant to a jury verdict, in favor of defendant, Richard Martin. We affirm.

The evidence, viewed in the light most favorable to the verdict, established that on June 1, 1990, plaintiff 2 went to defendant’s house to look at an automobile that he had approached defendant about purchasing. He informed defendant that he wanted to hear the engine run.. Twice, defendant poured gasoline from a small container into the carburetor of the automobile and tried to start the…