HOOPER v. GENERAL MOTORS CORP.

No. 7887.

123 Utah 515 (1953)

260 P.2d 549

HOOPER v. GENERAL MOTORS CORP.

Supreme Court of Utah.

Decided July 31, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

McBroom & Hanni, Glenn C. Hanni, Salt Lake City (E.R. Miller, J., Ely, Nev., of counsel), for appellant.

Leonard W. Elton, Max K. Mangum and H. Arnold Rich, Salt Lake City, for respondent.


WOLFE, Chief Justice.

On October 15, 1951, plaintiff and later appellant, Bonnye Hooper, was severely injured when a recently purchased 1951 Chevrolet pick-up truck she was driving on Nevada's Newark Valley Highway overturned. She sued defendant and later respondent, General Motors Corporation, assembler of the truck, to recover for injuries to herself and for damages to the truck sustained in the mishap. She charged that defendant negligently assembled, manufactured...

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