Lang v. General Motors Corporation

STRUTZ, Judge.

This is an appeal from a summary judgment entered in favor of the defendant, General Motors Corporation, for a dismissal of the plaintiff’s complaint.

The action was brought to recover damages which the plaintiff alleges he sustained when he purchased a new 1960 Chevrolet 2i/£-ton truck-tractor, manufactured and distributed by the defendant corporation. The truck was purchased from one of the defendant’s dealers, the Jay Kline Chevrolet Company, of Minneapolis, Minnesota. The plaintiff claims that the equipment which he purchased was defective because of negligent manufacture,…