Legal Opinion
General Motors Corporation v. Dorethea M. Walden, the Surviving Spouse of Homer L. Walden, Deceased
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided January 15, 1969No. 9729_1PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BREITENSTEIN, Circuit Judge.
The jury awarded appellee-plaintiff, Dorethea M. Walden, $95,000 for the death of her husband in a one-ear automobile accident occurring in Arizona. The appellant-defendant, General Motors Corporation, seeks a reversal of the judgment because of claimed errors in the instructions.
On October 9, 1965, the decedent was driving south towards Tucson in a Cor-vair automobile which he had purchased about one month before and which had been driven 3,210 miles. The paved, double-lane, 41-foot highway had a slight turn to the decedent’s right. The driver of a car approaching…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Fillippon v. Albion Vein Slate Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1919
- OS Stapley Company v. MillerArizona Supreme Court · 1968
- Arthur Mares v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1967
- Elizabeth Margaret Dallison and Max Dallison v. Sears, Roebuck and Co., a CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1962
- Speed Fastners, Inc. v. NewsomCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1967
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3Cited by44 opinions
- Bucyrus-Erie Company, Cross-Appellant v. General Products Corporation and John A. Hubly, Cross-AppelleesCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1981
- Van Bering Robinson v. John Maruffi, Joseph Polisar, Clarence Kraemer and Eloy Whitey Hansen, Chief of PoliceCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1990
- Benny Earl Farrell, an Oklahoma Citizen v. Klein Tools, Inc., a Delaware CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1989
- Fernon D. Marshall v. Ford Motor Company, a Foreign CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1971
- Brownlow v. AmanCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1984
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