Legal Opinion
Swanstrom v. Teledyne Continental Motors, Inc.
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided November 20, 2009No. 1080269PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SMITH, Justice.
This wrongful-death action arises out of a single-engine aircraft crash in which John E. Swanstrom, Jr. (“Swanstrom”), was fatally injured. Swanstrom’s son, John 0. Swanstrom, individually and as personal representative of Swanstrom’s estate, filed this action in the Mobile Circuit Court against the manufacturers of the aircraft, Cirrus Industries, Inc., and Cirrus Design Corporation (collectively “Cirrus”), and the manufacturers of the engine and the fuel pump of the aircraft, Teledyne Continental Motors, Inc., and Teledyne Technologies, Inc. (collectively “Tele-dyne”). The…
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