Legal Opinion
Jackson v. Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided April 30, 1986No. 84-1460PublishedCited by 72 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge:
Upon consideration of appellees’ petitions for rehearing we withdraw the original text of this opinion and substitute the following:
This is an appeal in a Texas diversity case take-nothing judgment in a survivor-ship and wrongful death action, predicated *1072on claims of negligence and strict liability. A jury found, by special verdicts, that the multi-piece truck wheel components in question were not defectively designed, and that no duty to warn had been breached by the manufacturers; the jury also determined the decedent to have been 100% con-tributorily negligent.…
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