There was really no reason to refuse, and Linda Kay had never ridden in a Cadillac.

The simple mechanical strain of overweight, says New York's Dr. Norman Jolliffe, can overburden and damage the heart `` for much the same reason that a Chevrolet engine in a Cadillac body would wear out sooner than if it were in a body for which it was built ''.

In Cadillac Motor Car Co. v. Johnson, ( decided in 1915 by the federal appeals court for New York and several neighboring states ), the court held that a car owner could not recover for injuries from a defective wheel, when the automobile owner had a contract only with the automobile dealer and not with the manufacturer, even though there was " no question that the wheel was made of dead and ‘ dozy ‘ wood, quite insufficient for its purposes.

" The Cadillac court was willing to acknowledge that the case law supported exceptions for " an article dangerous in its nature or likely to become so in the course of the ordinary usage to be contemplated by the vendor.

The facts were almost identical to Cadillac a year earlier: a wheel from a wheel manufacturer was sold to Buick, to a dealer, to MacPherson, and the wheel failed, injuring MacPherson.

Cadillac became the county seat after the so-called " Battle of Manton ," in which a show of force was involved in enforcing a controversial decision to move the county seat from Manton, Michigan.

Two years later, the Clam Lake Canal was constructed between Big and Little Clam lakes, present-day Lakes Mitchell and Cadillac.

Cadillac was originally named Clam Lake and was incorporated as a village in 1874.

The village was incorporated as a city in 1877 and renamed Cadillac, after Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, a Frenchman who made the first permanent settlement at Detroit in 1701.

The Wexford County seat of government, originally located in Sherman, was moved to Manton in 1881, as the result of a compromise between the feuding residents of Cadillac and Sherman.

When the sheriff returned to Cadillac, a force consisting of several hundred armed men was assembled ; this group reportedly included a brass band.

Cadillac was home to the Michigan Iron Works Company, which manufactured the Shay locomotive for a short time in the early 1880s.

Thirsty's, a gas station on M-55 west of Cadillac, was the home of Samantha or " Sam The Bear " from the 1970s through the late 1990s, when Sam died of old age.

In fact, Cadillac was chosen in 1988 to donate the Holiday tree to sit on the lawn of the U. S. Capitol building in Washington D. C.

Cadillac was incorporated as a city in 1877.

The class of 2006 was the largest class to go through Cadillac Public Schools.

Prior to 2001, the northern end of the freeway portion of US 131 was located at the southern entrance to Cadillac.

The former route of the highway through downtown Cadillac was redesignated as BUS US 131.

" In the hierarchy of nubbiedom, the supremely rewarding self-sacrifice was the loss of a right leg and a left arm, because, so the theory went, ' afterward, you could still write your name and still have a foot to press the gas pedal of your Cadillac.

A modern-day Cadillac hearse ; this one was used to transport the body of former US President Ronald Reagan during his Death and state funeral of Ronald Reagan | state funeral

Designed for professional car use, the rear of the Cadillac commercial chassis was considerably lower than the passenger car frame, thereby lowering the rear deck height as well for ease of loading and unloading.

The wind of their running was cold and wild, the horses were lathered and their manes streamed like stiff black pennants in the wind.

The metal strip they had taken off from was coal black against the green jungle around it.

Over the rapidly-diminishing outline of a jump seat piled high with luggage Herry's black brushcut was just discernible, near, or enviably near that spot where -- hidden -- more delicately-textured, most beautifully tinted hair must still be streaming back in cool, oh cool wind sweetly perfumed with sagebrush and yucca flowers and engine fumes.

His hair was black, already greying at the temples in the classic beauty-idiom, the only one permitted to a man.

Charles, also fifteen, was tall and skinny, scraggly, with straight black hair like an Indian's and sharp brown eyes.

She was nude to the waist and her tumbled abundance of black hair did not conceal the knife slashes on her back.

He seemed timid ( at first, ) wore nose glasses from which a black ribbon dangled, and was no bigger than a jockey.

When Mrs. Coolidge was in mourning, she did not wear black.

When Papa went out to do God's work, Stevie often accompanied him in the buggy, which was drawn by Violet, the new black mare.

The maid was very black and very energetic, trim in a yellow pique uniform.

When McFeeley was halfway to the door, the proprietor emerged -- a mountainous, dark man, his head thick with resiny black hair, his eyes like two of the black olives he imported in boatloads.

And a gray-haired man whose glance -- direct, lifelike, and mildly accusing -- was contradicted by the gilt and black frame.

He was wearing sneakers and shorts and an open-collared shirt, and in his hand he carried a little black bag.

It was a delayed moon, but now the sky had cleared of scudding black and the stars sugared the silver-gray sky.

Krakow Boulevard was filled with black Nazi uniforms and the dirty brownish ones of their Auxiliaries.

Soon we were deep in a conversation that was interrupted many times by little things like Jennie's holding her breath and pretending to black out, Miranda's dumping the contents of the sugar bowl on the table, and various screeches, thuds, and giggles.

Specific staining by DEAE-cellulose treated Af and Af, although clearly distinguishable under the microscope from either nonspecific staining or autofluorescence of cells, was not satisfactorily photographed to show such differences in spite of many attempts with black and white and color photography.

Just plain old black dirt was also used as a pack to relieve wasp or bee stings.

Near the southern border, cattle of the early longhorn breed whose coloration was black with a lineback, with white speckles frequently appearin' on the sides and belly, were called `` zorrillas ''.

But she was talking of Emile when she saw the black line of the open door ; ;

Alec's first impression of the lobby was gloomy, Victorian dignity -- black walnut and red plush, a black and white tiled floor, and Persian rugs.

She had black eyes, long and intriguingly tilted, and the way she walked was melody.