Sears, Roebuck & Company v. Morris

GOODWYN, Justice.

This is an appeal by Sears, Roebuck & Cómpany, one of the defendants below, from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Jefferson County rendered on a jury verdict in favor of plaintiff-appellee, William Morris, and also from a judgment overruling said defendant’s motion for a new trial.

This is a so-called “products liability” case, based on negligence, which appellee brought against Sears, Billy Joe Grogan and XYZ, to recover damages for personal injuries received by him when a metal wheel on a boat trailer “split, disintegrated, and flew apart” while appellee was inflating the…