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...Sincerely--J.H. Bigham (A cripple like yourself...
Whipping along an Indiana highway at about 115 m.p.h., Michael Bigham's 1960 Chevrolet Impala smashed into the rear of a car going 55. Since Bigham was clearly liable for the accident, his insurance company settled with the injured driver and passengers in the other car. But one passenger was not satisfied. Contending that the manufacturer "should have foreseen that the auto mobile would, in fact, be driven at excessive and unlawful speed to the risk of the public," Philip Michael Schemel sued General Motors on the un usual ground of negligence in building a vehicle that would...
...member of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, Judge Roger Kiley, agreed that "automobiles are intended to be used in an environment in which a traffic death occurs every eleven minutes and an injury every 19 seconds, and in which there are reckless, irresponsible drivers like Bigham. In my opinion, General Motors is chargeable with the duty of reasonably foreseeing the probable dangers" of building a car capable of high speeds...
...Carolyn Bigham, 19, was just out of high school when she suffered an attack of meningococcic meningitis - an inflammation of the covering of the brain and spinal cord. The disease left her memory so clouded that she could remember almost nothing of her life. She had to start school all over again in Charlotte, N.C., beginning with the first grade, until finally she could remember enough to graduate from high school again (TIME, July...
...process and, more important, kept her from withdrawing timidly into herself. Carolyn has been back at work, part-time, and she has recalled the names of flowers, though she still has occasional difficulty in bringing out the right name. This week, far from being timidly withdrawn, Choir Singer Carolyn Bigham is going to her church's Bonclarken Conference, just as she hoped to do in the fourth grade...