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Patricia Ann MISTICH, et al. v. VOLKSWAGEN OF GERMANY, INC., et al.
    No. 95-C-0939.
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    Nov. 25, 1996.
    J. Thomas Anderson, Hammond, John Vance Robiehaux, Jr., Chalmette, Walter Landry Smith, Baton Rouge, Glenn Edward Diaz, Chalmette, for Applicants.
    Robert E. Winn, Joy Goldberg Braun, Sharon Cormack Mize, Sessions & Fishman, New Orleans, David Joseph Bourgeois, Du-plass, Witmann, Zwain & Williams, Metairie, Pike Hall, Jr., Shreveport, for Respondents.
    Henry B. Alsobrook, Jr., Joel L. Borrello, Robert John Conrad, Jr., Shannan Leigh Boudreaux, Hugh F. Young, Jr., New Orleans, for Amicus Curiae Product Liability Advisory Council.
    William Hector Howard, III, New Orleans, Harry Alston Johnson, III, Memphis, TN, Arthur Howell Andrews, William Shelby McKenzie, Baton Rouge, for Amicus Curiae Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel.
   ON REHEARING

PER CURIAM.

We granted rehearing to reconsider whether the trial court committed manifest error in finding that the Volkswagen seat was defectively designed, and whether plaintiffs presented reliable evidence that a feasible alternative design existed that would have prevented the decedent’s death.

Upon further review, we find that the evidence supports the trial court’s findings. Accordingly, we reinstate our original opinion which reaffirms the trial court’s judgment.

ORIGINAL OPINION REINSTATED.

LEMMON, J., concurs.

VICTORY and MARCUS, JJ., dissent.

WATSON, J., not on panel, Rule IV, Part 2, § 3.