Legal Opinion
Swartz v. General Motors Corp.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided July 6, 1978PublishedCited by 84 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBraucher, J.
This is a product liability case, predicated on defective design of an automobile, arising out of a 1967 accident. We hold that there is no “strict liability in tort” apart from liability for breach of warranty under the Uniform Commercial Code, G. L. c. 106, §§ 2-314 — 2-318. We also affirm the action of the trial judge in directing a verdict for the defendant because there was no evidence that the defendant’s negligence caused the accident.
On September 4, 1967, the plaintiff Sklar was driving an automobile manufactured by the defendant, General Motors Corporation. The plaintiff Cohen was a…
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