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FORD v. AMERICAN MOTORS CORP.

No. 84-2008.

770 F.2d 465 (1985)

Julia FORD and Joe Ford, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. AMERICAN MOTORS CORPORATION, et al., Defendants, The United States of America, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied October 28, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Crawford, Grissom, Crow & Richards, Carl V. Crow, Houston, Tex., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Henry K. Oncken, U.S. Atty., James R. Gough, C.J. (Neil) Calnan, Letitia Taitte, Linda M. Cipriani, Asst. U.S. Attys., Houston, Tex., for defendant-appellee.

Before GEE, POLITZ and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied October 28, 1985.

POLITZ, Circuit Judge:

On September 10, 1979 Julia Ford purchased a used jeep, model DJ-5b, manufactured by American Motors Corporation, at a surplus sale conducted by the United States Postal Service. Approximately one year later she was injured in a single-vehicle accident when the jeep tipped over in a curve near her home in Pasadena, Texas. Julia Ford and her husband Joe Ford filed suit against the...

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