SHIPP v. GENERAL MOTORS CORP.

No. 83-2487.

750 F.2d 418 (1985)

Holly SHIPP, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied February 5, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fulbright & Jaworski, Stephen C. Dillard, Joe W. Redden, Jr., Houston, Tex., for defendant-appellant.

Hill, Parker, Franklin, Cardwell & Jones, Houston, Tex., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before GEE, POLITZ and HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judges.


PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:

General Motors appeals from a judgment following a jury trial in a products liability crashworthiness case. It challenges both the sufficiency of the evidence to support the jury's findings of defective roof design and producing cause and the district court's evidentiary rulings regarding certain demonstrative evidence depicting rollover sequences. We affirm.

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Holly Shipp, a nineteen-year-old Texas college...

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