Legal Opinion

Torres v. Caterpillar, Inc.

Texas Court of Appeals, 4th District (San Antonio)

Decided September 9, 1996No. 04-94-00789-CVPublishedCited by 47 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

RICKHOFF, Justice.

This appeal arises from a suit involving the death of Reymundo Torres for which appellants contended appellee Caterpillar Industrial, Inc. (“Caterpillar”) was responsible under a strict product liability theory. A partial motion for summary judgment was granted in favor of Caterpillar with regard to appellants’ manufacturing defect and design defect claims, 1 and the jury found in favor of Caterpillar with respect to appellants’ failure to warn defect claim. In five points of error, appellants raise the following complaints contending the trial court erred by: (1) granting…

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