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GENERAL MOTORS CORP. v. VAN MARTER

81-899.

447 So.2d 1291 (1984)

GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION v. Neal VAN MARTER, et al.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

March 2, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles A. Stewart, Jr. and Frank E. Lankford, Jr. of Huie, Fernambucq & Stewart, Birmingham and Otis M. Smith, Detroit, Mich., for appellant.

Herbert D. Jones, Jr. and J.L. Klinefelter of Burnham, Klinefelter, Halsey & Love, Anniston, for appellees Neal Van Marter and Martha Van Marter.

Clarence Simmons, Jr., George P. Ford, and Martha Lynn McCain of Simmons & Ford, Gadsden, for appellee Auto Owners Ins. Co.

EMBRY, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered on a jury verdict awarding $251,000 to Dr. Neal Van Marter, Mrs. Van Marter, and Auto Owners Insurance Company on a products liability claim. We affirm.

The facts are as follows: Dr. and Mrs. Van Marter owned a 1978 Oldsmobile Regency automobile, which had been purchased from a General Motors dealer in February of 1978. The car was parked in the Van Marters' carport on 30 May 1978 when their carport...

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