Bachner v. Pearson

OPINION

Before NESBETT, C. J., and DIMOND and RABINO WITZ, JJ. DIMOND, Justice.

This is a personal injury action brought by respondents against petitioner in July 1963, involving the crash of petitioner’s Piper Comanche airplane. The principal basis for respondents’ claim is that petitioner was negligent in failing to properly inspect and maintain the airplane’s muffler and exhaust system, and that as a result, carbon monoxide escaped into the cabin of the airplane asphyxiating the pilot, respondent Pearson, resulting in the crash.

Respondents made efforts to have the muffler and exhaust system…