Legal Opinion
Neal v. Butler Aviation International, Inc.
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided October 15, 1976No. 76 C 10PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM and ORDER
DOOLING, District Judge.
This diversity action, commenced January 6, 1976, arose out of the crash of a military aircraft (an AC-47) in South Vietnam on April 26, 1967, in which Major Burnette Neal, Jr. and Major Bruce R. Williams lost their lives. The charge of the complaint is that defendants are liable to the plaintiff executrices, resident in and appointed in Texas, either because (a) defendants negligently assembled, repaired and inspected the aircraft in 1966, or (b) because defendants breached warranties of their work that they made (cf. Victorson v. Bock Laundry Mche…
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