Legal Opinion
Glorvigen v. Cirrus Design Corp.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Decided July 18, 2012No. Nos. A10-1242, A10-1243, A10-1246, A10-1247PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
ANDERSON, G. BARRY, Justice.
This case requires our court to decide whether an airplane manufacturer owed a duty to a noncommercial pilot who, after purchasing an airplane from the manufacturer but failing to receive all of the flight training promised to him as part of that purchase, died when his airplane crashed. Gary R. Prokop and his passenger, James Kosak, died when Prokop’s Cirrus SR22 airplane crashed near Hill City. Prokop had purchased the SR22 just 1 month before the crash. As part of the purchase of the SR22, Cirrus provided a training program for new owners. That training…
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