BALLARD v. AMERICAN LAND CRUISERS, INC.

No. 87-2938.

537 So.2d 1018 (1988)

Carolyn J. BALLARD, Individually and As the Personal Representative of the Estate of Catherine Ballard, Appellant, v. AMERICAN LAND CRUISERS, INC., a Florida Corporation and Calvin Louis Ballard, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing Denied February 21, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brett Rivkind; Charles R. Lipcon, Miami, for appellant.

Gaebe, Murphy & Mullen and Mark R. Antonelli and Greg Gaebe, Haddad, Josephs & Jack and David K. Markarian, Coral Gables, for appellees.

Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., BASKIN, J., and JOSEPH P. McNULTY, Associate Judge.


SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge.

Carolyn Ballard's twelve-year-old daughter and elder child Catherine1 was killed through what the jury found2 was the negligent operation of a van owned by American Land Cruisers, Inc., and driven by Catherine's father and Carolyn's ex-husband, Calvin Ballard. Quite obviously because defense counsel artfully injected the irrelevant and highly prejudicial and inflammatory issues of the...

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