KIRKLAND v. GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION

No. 45016.

521 P.2d 1353 (1974)

Benita Helen KIRKLAND, Appellant, v. GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION, a foreign corporation, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

April 23, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C.B. Savage, Tulsa, and Doyle Watson, Drumright, for appellant.

Rhodes, Hieronymous, Holloway & Wilson by Bert M. Jones, Tulsa, for appellee.


DOOLIN, Justice.

The issue for us in this case is the present and the future of products liability litigation in Oklahoma. Much we do in this case may set the pattern of such litigation in Oklahoma and may determine whether this young, vigorous and progressive State shall now meet the challenge of the mass advertising of today, its hypnosis, and the pace and flow of the economics of the late twentieth century. Most of us...

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