Clemson v. Butler Aviation-Friendship, Inc.

This litigation apparently was provoked by an attempt to use an airplane at Friendship International Airport for a suicide. We shall here sustain the decision of a trial judge (Maguire, J.) who concluded that a bailee had exercised ordinary care and diligence in safeguarding property delivered to it for repairs.

Appellee, Butler Aviation-Friendship, Inc. (Butler), carried on a business at Friendship International Airport (Friendship) related to the hangar storage of aircraft, refueling of aircraft, parking of aircraft, “general assistance to the corporate aircraft, pilots and passengers,” and…