Deborah D. Bergemann v. United States

McWILLIAMS, Circuit Judge.

Mark Dunkle was killed in a mid-air collision of two small aircraft over Loveland, Colorado. Deborah Bergemann, claiming that she was the common law wife of Mark Dunkle, brought a wrongful death action in a state court of Colorado against Sky’s West Parachute Center, Inc., a Colorado corporation, and Air U.S., also a Colorado corporation, the owners and operators of the two planes involved in the collision. On petition by Sky’s West, the case was removed to the United States District Court for the District of Colorado on the ground that the basis for Bergemann’s…