Beck v. Wings Field, Inc.

JONES, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered by the court below on a jury’s verdict for the plaintiff in a civil action for damages for personal injury and property damage due to the defendant’s alleged negligence. For the consideration of the principal matter assigned here for error, a brief statement of the material facts will suffice.

While the plaintiff, a student pilot, was landing his aeroplane on a flying field owned and operated by the defendant for public use, the plane, which was then running along the ground, turned over with consequent injury to1 the plaintiff and…