GENERAL MOTORS CORP. v. BREWER

No. 96-0706.

966 S.W.2d 56 (1998)

GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION and Carter-Wood Motor Company, Petitioners, v. Thomas Ray BREWER, individually and as representative of the class of all owners of General Motors Corporation vehicles with defective restraint systems, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Rehearing Overruled May 8, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gael Plauché, Eugene A. Cook, Bracewell & Patterson, Houston, Ed T. Smith, Smith & Butler, Bonham, A. Erin Dwyer, Figari & Davenport, Dallas, Lee A. Schutzman, Detroit, MI, James H. Schink, Kirkland & Ellis, Chicago, IL, David M. Heilbron, Leslie G. Landau, McCutchen Doyle Brown & Enersen, San Francisco, CA, for Petitioners.

Edward Ellis, Ellis & Clark, Paris, John R. Mercy, Atchley Russell Waldrop & Hlavinka, Texarkana, David C. Turner, Bonham, Lynn A. Grisham, Waltman & Associates, Bryan, for Respondent.


PER CURIAM.

The principal question in this case is whether plaintiffs have raised a fact issue about the fitness of a certain restraint system in General Motors passenger cars for the ordinary purposes for which it is used. We hold that plaintiffs have not done so.

Thomas Brewer and others sued General Motors Corporation and a car dealership on behalf of themselves and all persons who, as of August 29, 1994, owned General Motors passenger cars manufactured...

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