Capital Airlines, Inc. v. Barger

Referring to the parties as they appeared below, this tort action grew out of an airplane accident which occurred when a four-motored Viscount *639passenger plane, owned and operated by the defendant, Capital Airlines, Inc., crashed in a field approximately 2,200 feet short of the south end of runway No. 5, at the Tri-City Airport near Saginaw, Michigan. The accident occurred on the night of April 6, 1958, at 11:19 P. M. under circumstances hereinafter appearing. At the time the plane was approaching said runway to make a routine landing at the Airport. Plaintiff’s husband, Dan M. Bar-ger, age…