Ranger Insurance Co. v. Robertson

SHANNON, Justice.

This appeal stems from a crash of a Piper aircraft near Graford on December 5, 1974. At the time of the crash Byron McKnight was the pilot of the plane and his wife, Amelda Ann McKnight, was a passenger. The flight in question originated in Hobbs, New Mexico and was to terminate in Dallas. Both the pilot and the passenger perished in the crash.

James Lewis Robertson, as executor of Amelda Ann McKnight’s estate, sued Byron McKnight’s estate for wrongful death in the district court of Travis County, cause number 255,130. On June 2, 1978, the district court ruled by summary…