Legal Opinion
Tebbetts v. Ford Motor Co.
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Decided September 19, 1995No. 93-751PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBatchelder, J.
On May 15, 1991, Rebecca Anne Tebbetts was fatally injured, in an automobile accident in Holderness. The plaintiff, Jo-Ann Tebbetts, administratrix of her daughter’s estate, sued the defendants, Ford Motor Company and Robert H. Irwin Motors, Inc. (collectively Ford), alleging that the 1988 Ford Escort Rebecca was driving was defectively designed because it did not contain an airbag on the driver’s side. Ford moved for summary judgment on the ground that the plaintiff’s “no airbag” theory violated the supremacy clause of the United States Constitution, U.S. CONST, art. VI, cl. 2, and was…
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