Supreme Court of Texas

In a products liability case involving allegedly defectively manufactured tire tread, a judgment in favor of plaintiff is reversed where plaintiffs' expert testimony was legally insufficient to establish a manufacturing defect.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/24/2006
• Decided 06/16/2006
• Published 06/16/2006

Judges

• Justice WILLETT delivered the opinion of the Court.

Court

• Supreme Court of Texas

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ruth G. Malinas, J. Michael Myers, Ball & Weed, P.C., W. Wendell Hall, Rosemarie Kanusky, Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P., San Antonio, James O. Darnell, Law Office of James O. Darnell, James R. Dennis, Soctt, Hulse, Marshall, Feuille, El Paso, for Petitioner., William A. Worthington, Strasburger & price, Houston, for Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Mary A. Keeney, John J. McKetta III, Boyce C. Cabaniss, Graves, Dougherty, Hearon & Moody, P.C., Austin, Grant Kaiser, The Kaiser Law Firm, Houston, James F. Scherr, Scherr Legate Ehrlich & Kennedy PLLC, El Paso, Hugh N. Smith, Smith & Fuller, P.A., Tampa, FL, Brian Philip Falbo, Fernando Chacon, Ken Coffman, Robles Bracken Coffman & Hughes LLP, El Paso, John Robert King, M. Steven Deck, Law Office of John King, McAllen, Ronald J. Stading, Stading & Associates, Ltd., El Paso, for Respondents.