Search Details

Word: cidents (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1965-1965
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...sometimes fatal accidents. But last week G.M. won the first of those suits - and in California, where the doctrine of strict liability is well established. In San Jose, G.M. successfully de fended itself against Doreen Collins, 39, a divorcee seeking $400,000 in compensatory damages for a grisly ac cident in 1962 when she was driving her fiance's 1960 Corvair on a narrow two-lane highway near El Nido. The car swerved out of control and hit a 16-ton truck head on, killing her fiance and one of her five children. For Plaintiff Collins, Lawyer David Harney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Torts: Verdict for Corvain | 8/20/1965 | See Source »

| 1 | 2 | Next