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· 12/19/1986

Szajna v. General Motors Corp.

Citations

  • 503 N.E.2d 760
  • 115 Ill. 2d 294
  • 104 Ill. Dec. 898
  • 2 U.C.C. Rep. Serv. 2d (West) 1268
  • 1986 Ill. LEXIS 369

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • refusing to extend implied warranties to remote buyer seeking economic loss damages as such would be judicial legislation
  • noting the doubtful precedential value of pre-1986 cases which utilized exceptions to the vertical privity rule
  • rejecting the name of. the car as an express warranty as to the components the car would use
  • noting that \the professed neutrality of\ the UCC on the privity requirement \should not be viewed as an invitation to the courts to abolish the privity requirement ... [n]or should it be viewed as a prohibition against further development in that direction.\
  • “Fraud is never presumed, but it may be inferred from the nature of the acts complained of.”
  • “[N]one of those cases stand for the proposition that a trade name is a description creating an express warranty that the product is of a particular quality or that its component parts are of a particular quality.”

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Judges: Ryan

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