Rinehart v. Woodford Flying Service, Inc.

Hatcher, Judge:

Plaintiffs recovered a judgment for damages received by their airplane in a collision with that of defendants.

A commercial meet was in progress on July 4, 1938, at the Elkins Municipal Airport, the home port of plain tiffs’ plane. It, after an absence of several days from the port, returned in the daytime, and while landing, collided with defendants’ plane, a participant in the meet, which was also landing at the same moment. The questions here relate to the rules and regulations applicable to the landings.

Code, 29-2A-2, gave the West Virginia Board of Aeronautics authority…