Legal Opinion
Datskow v. Teledyne Continental Motors Aircraft Products
District Court, W.D. New York
Decided July 15, 1993No. 88-CV-1299LPublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DECISION AND ORDER
LARIMER, District Judge.
BACKGROUND
This products liability case arises out of the crash of a private airplane in which four people were killed. Plaintiffs sued the manufacturer of the engine on the theory that a defect in the plane’s engine caused the crash.
On February 24, 1993, after a month-long trial, a jury returned a verdict in plaintiffs’ favor on theories of strict liability, negligent design, and failure to warn. The jury awarded the following damages: $250,000 to Juletta Cook, the mother of one of the decedents, on her wrongful death claim for economic loss; $5000…
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