Legal Opinion
Brewer v. General Motors Corp.
Texas Court of Appeals, 6th District (Texarkana)
Decided July 9, 1996No. 06-95-00060-CVPublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
CORNELIUS, Chief Justice.
Thomas Brewer and the other named plaintiffs filed this class action against General Motors Corporation and Carter-Wood Motor Company on behalf of all persons who, as of August 29, 1994, owned General Motors passenger cars manufactured since 1987 that have nonmotorized three-point restraint systems employing door-mounted restraint re-tractors, which systems purport to be automatic or passive in nature. The principal allegation of the suit was that General Motors had defectively designed and manufactured the restraint system in a way that discouraged users from…
2Cases cited35 opinions
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3Cited by6 opinions
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