Grove v. Story Oldsmobile, Inc.

Defendant appeals a jury verdict awarding plaintiff Charlotte Bugbee $5,000 and plaintiff Valere Lynn Tanzola Grove $80,000.

Plaintiff Grove- filed suit on March 17, 1966, alleging defendant’s breach of warranty as the proximate cause of extensive injuries she received as a guest passenger in an automobile involved in a collision March 21, 1965. She originally claimed the accident was caused when the driver’s seat, a so-called bucket seat, came loose from the floorboards of the automobile causing the seat to slide all of the way to the back seat. The complaint alleged that the front seat then…