Beechwoods Flying Service Inc. v. Al Hamilton Contracting Corp.

ROWLEY, Judge:

This is an appeal from an order denying appellants’ post-trial motions for judgment n.o.v. or a new trial.

On September 28, 1977, a helicopter, owned by Hepburnia Coal Sales Corporation (Hepburnia) and leased to its subsidiary, Beechwoods Flying Service, Inc. (Beechwoods), [hereinafter appellants], and a truck operated by Appellee Larry Wilsoncroft (Wilsoncroft), an employee of A1 Hamilton Contracting Corporation (Hamilton), collided. The helicopter had been leased by Hamilton from Beechwoods. Included in the fallout from the September 28, 1977 collision was the law suit that…