Clophus v. General Motors Corp.

OPINION

SEARS, Justice.

This is an appeal of a take nothing jury verdict in a products liability case. Finding no reversible error, we affirm.

Murphy Clophus and his wife sued General Motors (GM) for injuries he received when a bus manufactured by GM fell on him, cutting off the oxygen supply to his optic nerve and resulting in blindness. Clo-phus, who was a Metro1 mechanic at the time of the accident, alleged (1) that the RTS 11-01 bus was defectively designed, and, especially in regard to its six inch ground clearance, was unreasonably dangerous as designed, and (2) that GM had misrepresented…