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- Title: Spurlin v. General Motors Corp.
- Author : United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- Release Date : January 15, 1976
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 65 KB
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This diversity suit arises out of a school bus crash which occurred in Morgan County, Alabama, on April 23, 1968, when the buss brakes failed. Two wrongful death suits and twenty-two personal injury actions were filed, on behalf of the children who were in the bus at the time, against the manufacturer of the school bus chassis, General Motors Corporation. Following consolidation of the cases for trial by the district court, a six-person jury heard evidence for approximately two weeks. The court then submitted the cases on the theory of alleged negligent design of the braking system, and the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiffs, awarding damages in the amount of $70,000 each in the wrongful death cases. The district court, however, granted defendants post-trial motions for judgment notwithstanding the verdict and, in the alternative, a new trial, on the ground that the verdict was not supported by the evidence. This appeal followed. We consider the district courts two post-trial rulings in turn, beginning with its grant of General Motors motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict.
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