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HURT v. GENERAL MOTORS CORP.

No. 76-1571.

553 F.2d 1181 (1977)

Sharon HURT and Douglas Hurt, Appellants, v. GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided May 3, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald L. James, St. Louis, Mo., for appellants; Donald L. James and Patrick F. McLaughlin, of Moser, Marasalek, Carpenter, Cleary, Jaeckel, Keaney & Brown, St. Louis, Mo., on brief.

Joseph M. Kortenhof, St. Louis, Mo., for appellee; Peter B. Hoffman, of Kortenhof & Ely, St. Louis, Mo., and Frazer F. Hilder, Gen. Counsel, General Motors Corp., Detroit, Mich., on brief.

Before BRIGHT and ROSS, Circuit Judges, and URBOM, Chief District Judge.

BRIGHT, Circuit Judge.

Sharon Hurt allegedly ruptured her colon when her body partially submarined under a seat belt in an automobile collision. Thereafter, Sharon Hurt and her husband, Douglas Hurt, brought this action for damages against General Motors Corporation, the manufacturer of the automobile in which Mrs. Hurt was riding. The Hurts tried and submitted this case to a jury solely on the theory that the manufacturer was strictly liable for having produced a...

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