Justiss Oil Co. v. Monroe Air Center, L.L.C.

LThe defendants, Monroe Air Center, L.L.C. (“MAC”) and Old Republic Insurance Company, appeal a partial summary judgment in favor of the plaintiff, Justiss Oil Company, Inc. (“Justiss”). The district court applied the doctrine of res ipsa loqui-tur and found that defendants were liable for the damage to the airplane. For the following reasons, we affirm.

FACTS

Justiss was the owner of a Beechcraft King Air B-200 airplane, which was built in 1989. On October 5, 2006, Lindell Nichols, who was the pilot for Justiss, delivered the plane to MAC for a 6-year inspection of the plane’s landing gear and…