Pease v. Beech Aircraft Corp.

Opinion

WHELAN, Acting P. J.

There are involved here cross-appeals by the respective plaintiffs in five different actions consolidated for trial, and by the single defendant against which judgment was entered in those five actions.

All five actions arose out of the crash and destruction of an aircraft manufactured by defendant Beech Aircraft Corporation (Beech). In that crash Roy W. Gregory, Jr., pilot of the airplane, and his passengers, Donald Pease, Gaylord Warnick and Calvin Martin Evelhoch, were killed.

The plaintiffs in four of the actions were heirs respectively of the four named…