Legal Opinion
Frericks v. General Motors Corp.
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided September 17, 1976No. [No. 169, September Term, 17, 1975.]PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtEldridge, J.
This case was first before us in Frericks v. General Motors Corp., 274 Md. 288, 336 A. 2d 118 (1975). Briefly the facts are as follows. On September 21, 1970, John Frericks was a passenger in a 1969 Opel Kadett which was being driven by Ronald B. Baines. Near Jacksonville, North Carolina, Baines apparently fell asleep at the wheel, and the car left the road and overturned. It was alleged that after leaving the highway, the locking mechanism of the seat in which John Frericks was riding failed, allowing the seat to drop backwards and placing his head “in a position in line with the collapsing…
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