Legal Opinion
Lockheed Aircraft Service, Inc. v. Victor D. Gibson
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided February 18, 1955No. 15037PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.
Brought by plaintiff, a test pilot in the employ of Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, the suit was for personal injuries received by him in the crash at Carswell Air Force Base of a B-29 aircraft belonging to the United States Government, which defendant, under sub-contract with the “Corporation”, had undertaken to repair and prepare for a flight to the Air Force Base at Marietta, Georgia.
The claim was that the defendant was negligent in the respects set out in the complaint in repairing the aircraft and preparing it for the flight in question, *732and that the crash and his…
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3Cited by4 opinions
- A. H. Bull Steamship Co., Inc. v. Egbert LigonCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1960
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- Lockheed Aircraft Service, Inc. v. Victor D. GibsonCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1955