Aviation Materials, Inc. v. Pinney

ORDER

DAUGHERTY, Chief Judge.

This action arises from an alleged conversion of Plaintiffs’ airplane by Defendant. The plane had been left with Defendant by Plaintiffs for repair of some of its radios. The aircraft was damaged by a crash after the alleged conversion and while being flown by Defendant. Jurisdiction is based on diversity and jurisdictional amount. After the case was at issue, Defendant made an Application for Order Allowing Counterclaim and for Order Making Additional Parties Defendant to Counterclaim. In such Application he sought permission to file an action for malicious…