Gordon H. Ball, Inc. v. Parreira

On a Friday afternoon Wayne Haapala, a construction superintendent of Gordon H. Ball, Inc., a corporation, was flying in its 1956 Cessna Model 182 airplane from Oakland to Three Rivers when he was forced to make a landing near Atwater due to the exhaustion of his fuel or because of some defect in the plane. He attempted to land at the airport, but by mischance crashed in a neighboring oat field, which constituted part of defendant’s farming property. The nose wheel of the plane Avas torn off, and the craft came to rest on its back after the emergency landing.

Fortunately, the pilot was not…