HUDSON BUICK, PONTIAC, GMC TRUCK v. GOOCH

Nos. 12-98-00127-CV, 12-98-00128-CV.

7 S.W.3d 191 (1999)

HUDSON BUICK, PONTIAC, GMC TRUCK COMPANY, Appellant, v. Dean GOOCH and Kathy Gooch, individually, and Dean Gooch and Elaine Masterson as next friends for Jamie Gooch, Appellees. Hudson Buick, Pontiac, GMC Truck Company, Appellant, v. Edelle Newton Irwin, individually and as executor of the Estate of Mary Jeanette Cooper Irwin, Deceased, Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Tyler.

Rehearing Overruled January 4, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roger D. Higg, Wade Caven Crosnoe, Donald H. Flanary, Darrell M. Grams, Dallas, for Appellant.

Thomas H. Brown, Kilgore, for Appellees in No. 12-98-00127-CV.

John D. Sloan, Jr., R. Clement Dunn, Longview, for Appellees in No. 12-98-00128-CV.

Melissa A. Eason, Austin, Amicus Curiae National Assoc. Independent Insurers.

Ellen Heironimus, Austin, Amicus Curiae Texas Automobile Dealer Assoc.

Panel consisted of RAMEY, Jr., C.J., HADDEN, J., and WORTHEN, J.


JIM WORTHEN, Justice.

Appellant Hudson Buick, Pontiac, GMC Truck Company, which is now known as Lively Buick, Pontiac, GMC Truck Company ("Hudson") appeals from a multimillion dollar personal injury judgment awarded to Appellees1 as a result of injuries they sustained in a three-car automobile accident on May 30, 1994. Hudson was made a party to the suit because the 1981 Cadillac in which the Gooches were riding at the time of the accident...

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