Hall v. Stover

Ed. P. McFaddin, Justice.

This is an action brought by the owner to recover damages alleged to have been caused to his airplane by the negligence of the bailee.

Stover (plaintiff below and appellee here) was engaged in renting airplanes to licensed pilots. Hall (defendant below and appellant here) was a licensed pilot, and rented an airplane from Stover and flew it for about an hour, and damaged the plane in landing it. Stover claimed that Hall was negligent in landing the plane, in that he landed (1) cross wind, (2) cross traffic and (3) in a forward slip. Hall claimed that he was an…