Walthew v. Davis, Adm'r

Helen Elizabeth Taylor, while riding as a guest in an airplane operated by John W. Walthew, was killed when the airplane in attempting to take off at the Shannon Airport near Fredericksburg crashed into a building adjacent to the runway. In an action for wrongful death, B. W. Davis, sheriff, administrator of the estate of the decedent, recovered a verdict and judgment of $10,000 against Walthew, hereinafter designated as the defendant, who has appealed.

The primary contention of the defendant is that the lower court erroneously ruled and instructed the jury that he was liable to his guest…