Hoebee v. Howe

The first question which we shall consider is -whether the Court’s ruling is correct that certain state and federal statutes are a basis for liability of the defendant, Skyhaven, Inc. At the outset it should be noted that the effect of either the federal or state statute, if applicable at all, would be substantially the same applied to an intrastate flight such as was being made here. Both the Federal Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938 (49 U. S. C. A., ss. 401-705) and the New Hampshire Aeronautics Act passed in 1941 (Laws 1941, c. 199; R. L., c. 306), which was evidently copied from the federal…