Higgins v. General Motors Corp.

Frank Holt, Justice.

This is a tort action for damages allegedly resulting from a defectively manufactured brake hose. In September 1964, appellant purchased a 1965 Pontiac Catalina from appellee Horace Terry Pontiac Company (doing business at that time as Milner-Terry Pontiac Company). Almost four years and some 16,000 miles later, the Catalina’s front brake hose ruptured, thus rendering the hydraulic braking system ineffective and allegedly causing appellant to ram into the rear of another vehicle. In April 1969, or about ten months after the accident, appellant received a recall letter from…