Shoemaker v. Estate of Whistler

STEAKLEY, Justice.

The suit here is for damages for the death of the son of Petitioner, Wylie G. Shoemaker, who was killed in the crash of a single-engine four-passenger private airplane. The airplane was owned by Clyde Whistler, C. D. Carroll, Harvey Rogers, Barry Pendleton and Horace Fletcher. On July 13, 1968, two of the owners, Whistler and Carroll, accompanied by Jack Whis- tier, the son of owner Whistler, and by Walter Shoemaker, the son of Wylie G. Shoemaker, were killed in the crash of the airplane while engaged in a voluntary Civil Air Patrol search mission. The search had no business…