Gammill v. Jack Williams Chevrolet, Inc.

Whether summary judgment for defendants was proper in this products liability suit, as the court of appeals held it was, 1 depends on whether plaintiffs’ two expert witnesses (1) were qualified to give the opinions they gave, (2) demonstrated that their opinions were relevant and rehable, and (3) were denied a reasonable inspection of the subject vehicle. The lower courts answered each of these questions negatively. We affirm.

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Deborah Gammill was driving her 1988 Isuzu Trooper about 40 m.p.h. on a two-lane county road at 4:35 p.m. with her three-year-old son Curtis in the right front seat and…