Ranger Insurance Co. v. Robertson

SHANNON, Chief Justice.

This appeal stems from an airplane crash near Graford on December 5, 1974. Byron McKnight was the pilot and his wife, Amel-da Ann McKnight, was a passenger. The flight had originated in Hobbs, New Mexico and was to terminate in Dallas. Both the pilot and the passenger perished in the crash.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

James Lewis Robertson, as executor of the wife’s estate, sued the husband’s estate for wrongful death in the district court of Travis County. The district court rendered summary judgment that the Texas doctrine of interspousal tort immunity barred the suit. The court…