Legal Opinion
Pack v. Beech Aircraft Corporation
Supreme Court of Delaware
Decided May 24, 1957No. 52PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Southerland, C. J.:
Manuel N. Pack, plaintiffs’ testator, was an airplane pilot. He was a resident of Delaware. On or about June 13, 1953, he was killed in an airplane crash in New Jersey. He had been piloting an airplane manufactured and designed hy the defendant aircraft corporation. On October 25, 1955, his executors sued in Delaware to recover damages for his death, alleging that the defendant’s airplane was defective in design and manufacture. The action was begun more than two years but less than three years after the date of death. It is founded upon the New Jersey wrongful death…
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