Aerodex, Inc. v. American International Insurance Co., S.A.

TUTTLE, Circuit Judge.

This appeal from a judgment based on a jury verdict in favor of the Insurance Company as subrogee of its assured, Ex-preso Aereo Interamericano, S.A., raises two questions. The first is whether there was sufficient evidence to warrant the jury in finding that the cause of the damage to Expreso’s plane, which made a crash landing at the Miami airport was the negligent installation by appellant of a wrong link rod in the overhaul of the right engine. The second is whether the evidence demanded a directed verdict that the crash was caused either solely by negligence of…