Hall v. Payne

This action is based upon an airplane accident in which the two occupants of the plane were killed. The main question presented is whether there was sufficient evidence of negligence on the part of the pilot to sustain a jury verdict in favor of the plaintiff for $5,000.

The plaintiff was the administratrix of Edwin Winn Hall, her son, a boy thirteen years old. The defendant was the administrator of Guy H. Carrington, a young married man twenty years old.

A few days before the accident,. Carrington received *142his license as a private pilot. On the day of the accident, August 7, 1947, he secured a…