Mooney Aircraft Corp. v. Altman

BAKER, Justice.

Mooney Aircraft Corporation appeals from an adverse judgment in a products liability suit concerning the crash of a private airplane. Mooney raises five points of error. In its second point, it contends that the trial court erred by submitting two improperly phrased questions to the jury. We sustain this point and reverse and remand this cause for a new trial.

On February 2, 1982, Lawrence Altman came to Kerrville, Texas, where he took delivery of a new Mooney Model M20J airplane. Altman flew the plane from Kerr-ville to Phoenix, Arizona. After servicing the plane, he took off…