GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION v. HEBERT

No. 16160.

501 S.W.2d 950 (1973)

GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION, Appellant, v. Bernard A. HEBERT et al., Appellees.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Houston (1st Dist.).

Rehearing Denied December 6, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vinson, Elkins, Searls, Connally & Smith, B. Jeff Crane, Jr., Daniel A. Hyde, Houston, for appellant; Ross L. Malone, Thomas W. Watkins, Detroit, Mich., of counsel.

Jamail & Gano, Joseph D. Jamail, John Gano, Gus Kolius, Hofheinz & Harpold, Houston, for appellees Bernard A. Hebert and others.

Lorance & Thompson, Tom Lorance, Houston, for appellee Boyd Mullen Chevrolet, Inc.


PEDEN, Justice.

This is a products liability case arising out of a one-car accident on Interstate Highway 45 north of Houston.

On July 13, 1969, Mrs. Dorothy Hebert, a secretary for Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, was driving a 1969 Chevrolet Impala to St. Louis, delivering it to one for whose use it had been purchased by the church from Boyd Mullen Chevrolet Co. two days earlier. Near Madisonville, while traveling in the left lane of the highway at approximately...

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