Baumis v. General Motors Corp.

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of defendants, entered May 11, 1983 in Montgomery County, upon a verdict rendered at Trial Term (Crangle, J.).

Plaintiff contends that the trial court erred in refusing to admit into evidence certain rebuttal proof offered by plaintiff at the close of defendants’ case. We disagree.

*790At trial plaintiff introduced proof, including expert testimony, to establish that decedent died as the result of a fire in a new automobile manufactured by defendant General Motors Corporation (hereafter defendant) and that the fire was caused by design and/or…