Otte v. American Airlines, Inc.

This appeal on questions of law comes to this court from a judgment for the plaintiff entered after trial of the issues joined by the pleadings, upon the verdict of a jury in the Municipal Court of Cleveland. The action is one in negligence.

The plaintiff holds a private pilot’s license issued by the Civil Aeronautics Board and at the time here in question owned a “Bellanca” four-seated airplane powered by a single 150 horsepower engine. The defendant, a commercial airline, was the owner, among other property, of a DC-6 four-motored cargo plane which had been in the hangar at the southeast end…