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BLOYED v. GENERAL MOTORS CORP.

No. 06-93-00113-CV.

881 S.W.2d 422 (1994)

Clyde BLOYED, Ron Godbey, and Regina Godbey, Appellants v. GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION, Tommy Dollar and others, Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Texarkana.

Decided June 22, 1994.

Rehearing Denied July 12 and July 14, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marc R. Stanley, Roger L. Mandel, Stanley, Mandel & Kleinman, P.C., Dallas, for Clyde Bloyed.

Tim Crowley, Crowley, Marks & Douglas, Houston, for Tommy Dollar.

W. Richard Davis, Ernest R. Higginbotham, Strasburger & Price, Dallas, Robert B. Ellis, J. Andrew Langan, James H. Schink, Kirkland & Ellis, Chicago, IL, Edward C. Wolfe, Lee A. Schutzman, General Motors Corp., Detroit, MI, for GMC.

Stephen Gardner, Law Offices of Stephen Gardner, Dallas, for Ron & Regina Godbey.

Sam Baxter, Jones, Jones & Curry, Inc., Marshall, for Tommy Dollar & GMC.

Before CORNELIUS, C.J., and BLEIL and GRANT, JJ.

BLEIL, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment approving a class action settlement. The primary issue on appeal is whether the trial court abused its discretion in approving the settlement agreement. We conclude that, because the settlement agreement is not fundamentally fair, adequate, and reasonable to the class members, the trial court abused its discretion in approving the settlement. Therefore, we reverse.

In November 1992, Tommy Dollar and others...

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