GENERAL MOTORS CORP. v. BLOYED

No. 94-0777.

916 S.W.2d 949 (1996)

GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION, Tommy Dollar and others, Petitioners, v. Clyde BLOYED, Ron Godbey, and Regina Godbey, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Decided February 9, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Franklin Jones, Jr., Marshall, Rosemary T. Snider, Marshall, Sam Baxter, Marshall, Joe R. Greenhill, Austin, Larry F. York, Austin, Bob E. Shannon, Austin, Patrick O. Keel, Austin, Timothy J. Crowley, Houston, Eugene A. Cook, Houston, J. Andrew Langan, Chicago, IL, W. Richard Davis, Dallas, Ernest R. Higginbotham, Dallas, P. Michael Jung, Dallas, Lee A. Schutzman, Detroit, MI, Edward C. Wolfe, Detroit, MI, Robert B. Ellis, Chicago, IL, Gael Plauche, Houston, for petitioners.

Stephen Gardner, Dallas, Roger L. Mandel, Dallas, Marc R. Stanley, Dallas, for Respondents.


Justice CORNYN delivered the opinion of the Court, in which all Justices join.

The question in this appeal is whether the trial court abused its discretion under Texas Rule of Civil Procedure 42(e) when it approved the settlement of a class action involving about 645,000 owners of certain pickup trucks manufactured by General Motors Corporation (GMC). The plaintiffs claim that the trucks' side-saddle gas tanks, located outside the vehicle frame, make the trucks particularly...

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