Legal Opinion
Phillips Buick-Pontiac-GMC, Inc. v. Dallon
District Court of Appeal of Florida
Decided June 19, 1992No. 91-501PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
COWART, Judge.
The appellees, parents, purchased a used Volkswagen Rabbit from the appellant automobile dealer. The engine in the vehicle failed and the dealer replaced it. Nine months and 14,000 miles later, the parents noticed a couple of things were not right with the vehicle. Something was causing the vehicle to shudder and the engine was losing water. One day when the mother started the engine in the vehicle, the vehicle lunged backward, ran over and killed her three year old child.
The parents sued the automobile dealer for negligence on the theory, supported by expert witness testimony…
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