Finfera v. Thomas

MARTIN, Circuit Judge.

This tort action, arising out of a ground collision between two airplanes, reaches us on appeal by the plaintiff from the judgment of the District Court on a. directed verdict in favor of the defendants. The scene of the accident was the Detroit Airport; the time, 8 o’clock in the evening of July 31, 1937, while it was still daylight.

Appellant, a twenty-five year old graduate in mechanical engineering of Ohio State University, had received an air pilot’s private license while in college, and had made, in the company of the owner as copilot, four or five flights in a…