Firestone Steel Products Company, Formerly a Division of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company, Accuride Corporation…

Summary

The Texas Supreme Court reversed the Court of Appeals and entered judgment for Firestone, holding that Firestone neither designed, manufactured, nor sold the wheel that caused Jimmy Barajas’s death and therefore owed no duty under negligence, strict products liability, or civil conspiracy. The Court also noted that a concurrence/dissent argued Firestone should owe a designer’s duty of care in negligence.