Legal Opinion
Obenshain v. Halliday
District Court, E.D. Virginia
Decided December 9, 1980No. 80-0658-APublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
I. STATEMENT OF PROCEEDINGS
RICHARD L. WILLIAMS, District Judge.
This lawsuit arises from the death of plaintiff’s decedent, Richard D. Obenshain, in an airplane crash near Chesterfield County Airport, Virginia, on August 2, 1978. The plaintiff alleges that, unknown to Mr. Obenshain and to the pilots of the plane, the runway lights at the Chesterfield County Airport were out of order. The failure of these lights allegedly caused pilot disorientation and the crash of the airplane.
The plaintiff filed this action against the United States of America; Chesterfield County (the…
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