General Motors Corp. v. Hudiburg Chevrolet, Inc.

A truck assembled by attaching a service body (the bed) to a cab chassis (the cab, chassis, and drive train) split apart in a collision and caught fire, injuring the driver and killing the driver of the other vehicle. In the ensuing personal injury and wrongful death suit against the manufacturer of the cab chassis and the dealer who sold the truck and had arranged for it to be assembled, the plaintiffs alleged that the “the vehicle, including its fuel system”, was defective and unreasonably dangerous. The plaintiffs did not sue the manufacturer of the service body or the assembler. When that…