Legal Opinion
Yowell v. Piper Aircraft Corp.
Texas Supreme Court
Decided January 22, 1986No. C-3405PublishedCited by 151 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SPEARS, Justice.
This is a wrongful death and survival case. On February 22, 1977, Howard Reed Yowell, James Luther Ward, Jr., Jimmy Kenneth Fulkerson, and Fabe Ingram, Jr. were killed in a crash of a Piper PA-31-310 aircraft near Springdale, Arkansas. The airplane sustained a mid-air breakup at about 10,000 feet and crashed to the ground. There were no survivors.
Vicki Leigh Yowell, widow of Howard Reed Yowell and executrix of the estate of Howard Reed Yowell, brought this suit for the use and benefit of all persons entitled to recover for the wrongful death of Howard Reed Yowell. Dovie W.…
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