Brown v. General Motors Corp.

— Plaintiff, Mrs. Claudia Brown, purchased at retail a new Cadillac automobile in July, 1959. She drove it approximately 33,000 miles. On May 10, 1961, Mrs. Brown, with coplaintiff, Mrs. Harold A. Morrison, as a guest passenger, was driving the vehicle from Seattle to eastern Oregon and Idaho. While traveling at about 50 to 55 miles an hour on a straight unobstructed highway near Prosser, Washington, the wheels appeared to lock and the automobile veered from the highway into a ditch. Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Morrison were injured and the car was demolished. Believing that the accident was caused…