Klosterman v. Cummings

*685OPINION

By the Court,

Batjer, J.:

This appeal is from a judgment of dismissal entered by the district court, pursuant to NRCP 54(b), in a wrongful death action that arose out of a mid-air collision near Las Vegas, Nevada, between a military aircraft piloted by Edward Klosterman and a small private airplane piloted by Leslie Curtis Sumner.

The action was commenced by the widow and minor children of the deceased air force pilot against the special administrator of the estate of the deceased private pilot.

The dismissal rests upon NRS 140.040(3) which precludes liability of a special administrator to…