Legal Opinion
Griffith v. Continental Casualty Co.
District Court, N.D. Texas
Decided February 2, 1981No. Civ. A. 3-79-0611-HPublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
SANDERS, District Judge.
For ten years prior to the morning of October 28,1975, Lee R. Griffith had been a pilot for Delta Air Lines, experienced in flying both commercial and smaller private aircraft. On that morning, at approximately 10:00 a. m., Griffith took off from Love Field in Dallas, Texas, in his private twin-engine Beechcraft plane, accompanied only by a friend, Fred Zimmerman.
Griffith told his wife that he planned to fly to Florida that morning, but no flight plan was filed. After its departure from Love Field, the plane did not arrive in Florida and, in fact, was…
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