SPURLIN v. GENERAL MOTORS CORP.

No. 74-3080.

528 F.2d 612 (1976)

A. A. SPURLIN, surviving parent of Douglas J. Spurlin, a minor, Deceased, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied May 10, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Francis H. Hare, Sr., Birmingham, Ala., Carey Walker, Jr., Harvey B. Morris, Huntsville, Ala., Truman Hobbs, Montgomery, Ala., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Jerry B. Ange, Ralph H. Ford, Huntsville, Ala., for defendant-appellee.

Before TUTTLE, THORNBERRY and COLEMAN, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied May 10, 1976. See 531 F.2d 279.

TUTTLE, Circuit Judge:

This diversity suit arises out of a school bus crash which occurred in Morgan County, Alabama, on April 23, 1968, when the bus's brakes failed. Two wrongful death suits and twenty-two personal injury actions were filed, on behalf of the children who were in the bus at the time, against the manufacturer of the school bus chassis, General...

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