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GENERAL MOTORS CORP. v. HARPER

No. 11-01-00075-CV.

61 S.W.3d 118 (2001)

GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION, Appellant, v. Mel Anthony HARPER, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Jerry W. Harper, deceased; Roy William Harper; and Wilma Louise Harper, Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Eastland.

Rehearing Overruled December 13, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christina Wheeler, David Heilbron, Frank Hinman, Monty Agarwal, Simona Gurevich, McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, San Francisco, CA, George Boll, R. Chris Harvey, Strasburger & Price, S. Vance Wittie, Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold, Dallas, for appellant.

Charles M. Noteboom, Noteboom & Gray, Hurst, Gregory Jensen, James H. Holmes, III, Burford & Ryburn, Dallas, John Hill, Jr., M. Wade Turner, Locke Liddell & Sapp, Houston, Patricia Shackleford, David Perry, Rene Haas, Perry & Haas, Corpus Christi, for appellees.

Panel consists of ARNOT, C.J., and WRIGHT, J., and McCALL, J.

Opinion

TERRY McCALL, Justice.

General Motors Corporation (GM) appeals from a judgment, based on a jury verdict, awarding appellees $16,506,764.23 in compensatory damages plus prejudgment interest and $31,000,000 in punitive damages. In its first three issues, GM asserts that there was no evidence or, in the alternative, factually insufficient evidence of defect and of causation and that the trial court erred in admitting evidence of patents. Because we...

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