KUCHINIC v. McCrory

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Jones,

The instant appeals involve three consolidated trespass actions which arose out of an airplane crash which occurred on December 8,1957, at a point 25 miles south *316of Brunswick, Georgia. The four occupants of the airplane—the pilot and three passengers—were killed in the crash. Trespass actions were instituted by the personal representatives of the three passengers (appellants) against the estate of the pilot in the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County and, after a jury trial in September of 1968, the jury returned a verdict against appellants and in favor of…