First International Bank in San Antonio v. Roper Corp.

KILGARLIN, Justice.

This products liability case presents two issues to this court. First, did the trial court’s submission of an instruction on sole cause constitute harmful error? Second, was the trial court’s refusal to allow the plaintiff to introduce a 1982 lawnmower as an illustration of the feasibility of safety changes an abuse of discretion? George Hemeyer sued Roper Manufacturing Company and Sears Roebuck and Company (both defendants will be subsequently referred to as “Roper”) after Hemeyer’s three year old daughter, Mariann, injured her hand in a lawnmower’s grasscutting blades.…