General Motors Corp. v. Brewer

In General Motors Corp. v. Brewer, 966 S.W.2d 56 (Tex. 1998), the plaintiffs complained that certain seatbelts purported to be an automatic restraint system, which would not require any action by the user to engage the system, when, in fact, it was almost impossible for the user to get in and out of the vehicle without first having to detach the seatbelt from the door of the vehicle. Id. at 57. The court in Brewer held that just because the restraint system was more cumbersome to use than anticipated did not render the restraint system unfit for the ordinary purpose for which it is used. See id. It stated, "a product which performs its ordinary function adequately does not breach the implied warranty of merchantability merely because it does not function as well as the buyer would like, or even as well as it could." Id.