GARDNER v. GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION

No. 73-1966.

507 F.2d 525 (1974)

Dorothy Mae GARDNER, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellant. Mazie M. JOHNSON, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellant. Alice J. VAN LEWEN, Individually, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

Decided December 16, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William H. Hazlitt, Denver, Colo. (Michael E. Oldham and Thomas H. Barrows, Weller, Friedrich, Hickisch & Hazlitt, Denver, Colo., and Ross L. Malone, of counsel, Gen. Motors Corp., Detroit, Mich., on the brief), for defendant-appellant.

Thomas J. Constantine, Hindry & Meyer, Denver, Colo., for plaintiffs-appellees Van Lewen.

Richard W. Laugesen, Dosh, DeMoulin, Anderson & Campbell, Denver, Colo., for plaintiff-appellee Johnson.

Bennett S. Aisenberg, Gorsuch, Kirgis, Campbell, Walker & Grover, Denver, Colo., for plaintiff-appellee Gardner.

Before LEWIS, Chief Judge, and BREITENSTEIN and BARRETT, Circuit Judges.


LEWIS, Chief Judge.

This is a product liability case involving a 1966 three-quarter ton pickup truck manufactured and sold new by General Motors Corporation (GMC). The appeal is taken by GMC from judgments aggregating approximately $700,000 in actions brought and consolidated in the District Court for the District of Colorado under the Colorado Wrongful Death Act for the deaths of the husbands of the named plaintiffs. Each of the decedents had died from inhalation...

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