GENERAL MOTORS CORP. v. BELL

1950506, 1950508.

714 So.2d 268 (1996)

GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION and General Motors Acceptance Corporation v. Charles BELL and Charles Bell Motor Company, Inc. Charles BELL and Charles Bell Motor Company, Inc. v. GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION and General Motors Acceptance Corporation.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

Rehearing Applications Denied May 8, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Warren B. Lightfoot and Madeline H. Haikala of Lightfoot, Franklin & White, L.L.C., Birmingham; Anthony A. Joseph of Johnston, Barton, Proctor & Powell, Birmingham; Jock M. Smith, Tuskegee; Jess H. Dickinson of Page, Manning, Peresich, Dickinson & McDermott, Gulfport, Mississippi; and David M. Heilbron and Robert L. Ebe of McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, San Francisco, California, for appellants/cross appellees General Motors Corporation and General Motors Acceptance Corporation.

Fred D. Gray and Walter E. McGowan of Gray, Langford, Sapp, McGowan, Gray and Nathanson, Tuskegee; Justice D. Smyth III and Philip H. Butler of Robison & Belser, P.A., Montgomery; and J. D. Smyth, Jr., of Smyth Firm, Luverne, for appellees/cross appellants Charles Bell and Charles Bell Motor Company, Inc.


HOUSTON, Justice.

The defendants, General Motors Corporation ("GM") and General Motors Acceptance Corporation ("GMAC"), appeal from a judgment entered on jury verdicts in favor of the plaintiffs, Charles Bell, an individual, and Charles Bell Motor Company, Inc. ("the dealership"), totaling $18,838,000, in an action based on allegations of misrepresentation, suppression, and wantonness (1950506). The plaintiffs cross appeal, arguing that the State should not share...

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