Davies v. Oshkosh Airport, Inc.

On this appeal defendant contends that under undisputed evidence Clyde Lee, the pilot of plaintiff’s airplane, was negligent, as a matter of law, in landing without having a proper lookout for objects on the field before he landed. The following facts were established beyond dispute : The accident happened July 10,1928, at about 8 p. m., while the sun was still shining, on a rectangular landing field, which was maintained by defendant, and which was 2,600 feet long from north to south, and 1,300 feet wide. Plaintiff usually kept his airplane on that field and had started from there on that…