Do you think this is a valid lawsuit Widows file suit against truck maker want money for summglers choice of?

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Do you think this is a valid lawsuit Widows file suit against truck maker want money for summglers choice of what to smuggle in ?A federal lawsuit filed in Victoria claims the maker and owner of a tractor-trailer are at fault for the deaths of illegal immigrants.

The lawsuit contends the immigrants, who were transported illegally inside a sealed tractor-trailer, could not get out because the trailer lacked escape hatches. The immigrants died of dehydration, suffocation and hyperthermia.

Emilia Salgado and Yanely Altagracia filed the lawsuit on behalf of their children. The widows are New York residents and originally from the Dominican Republic.

Nineteen illegal immigrants died in May 2003 inside the sealed tractor-trailer, which the driver ditched on Victoria's outskirts.

Human smugglers loaded immigrants into the trailer in Harlingen - bound for Houston. By the time the trailer reached Victoria, many immigrants were already dead.

Salgado and Altagracia are the widows of Mateo Salgado and Augusto Stanley Vargas, respectively.

The families seek damages for breach of implied and express warranties, wrongful death and negligence, among other claims.

Great Dane Trailers, which is headquartered in Georgia, is the trailer's maker; Salem Truck Leasing, based in New York, owned the trailer.

"The design of the trailer allowed operators, occupants and passengers to be trapped inside the trailer and yet have no rescue hatch, pull string or other escape mechanism - thus placing trapped occupants of the trailer in danger of suffocation or death," the lawsuit contends.

"Nor did Great Dane warn operators or users of the trailer of the dangers of traveling inside the trailer," the lawsuit continues.

Salem Truck Leasing failed to train the tractor-trailer's driver in operating the trailer, which was designed to store produce and not people, the lawsuit contends.

http://www.victoriaadvocate.com/news/2010/oct/29/gs_truck_lawsuit_103010_116465/?news&police-courts

Answer 1

The families seek damages for breach of implied and express warranties, wrongful death and negligence, among other claims should be made against the smugglers. Someone wants some money over someones actions of breaking the law.And it's always for the kids ......

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Answer 3

If we are not careful here, those folks are going to sue us for being where we are... next to Mexico. Give me a break... not a chance said the Mexican.