# Brown v. General Motors Corp.

> Supreme Court of Alabama · January 16, 2009 · 14 So. 3d 104

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9656849

## Case

- **Full name:** Troy BROWN v. GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Alabama
- **Decided:** January 16, 2009
- **Citations:** 14 So. 3d 104; 2009 Ala. LEXIS 24; 2009 WL 129959
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Woodall
- **Judges:** Cobb, Parker, Murdock, Stuart, Smith, Lyons, Woodall, Bolin, See
- **Cited by:** 7 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9656849

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that a claim alleging breach of an automobile manufacturer’s repair warranty accrues “at the time the manufacturer breaches its contractual obligation to repair that good” and that, “before the manufacturer has failed or refused to repair any defects that might subsequ…
- concluding that promise to repair is not express warranty under UCC and that cause of action for breach accrues when manufacturer fails or refuses to repair
- recognizing that limitations period in Alabama’s UCC applied to car buyer’s Magnuson-Moss Act claim against car manufacturer

## Opinion text

WOODALL, Justice
(concurring in the result).
I agree with Justice Lyons; therefore, I concur only in the result. See Black’s La-w Dictionary 1122 (8th ed.2004) (“on or about” means “[ajpproximately; at or around the time specified”).

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