Peavey v. City of Miami Magic City Airways, Inc.

The declarations filed by the respective plaintiffs in these companion cases both charged the defendant, the City of Miami, with the same negligence, in substance that of carelessly maintaining and operating a municipal airport and that as a proximate result thereof the plaintiff Peavey sustained serious and permanent injuries and the airplane owned by the plaintiff Magic City Airways, Inc., was destroyed. The defendant city interposed pleas 'of the general issue and contributory negligence.

The plaintiff Peavey, one of the plaintiffs in error, who had had some years experience in the flying…