Southern Air Transport v. Gulf Airways, Inc.

HAMITER, Justice.

Southern Air Transport, a commercial partnership composed of J. M. Granberry, Jr., and H. Willard Lewis, seeks in this tort .action a judgment for damages arising out ■of a ground collision at the New Orleans airport during the late afternoon of July 29, 1947, between its airplane and another owned by defendant, Gulf Airways, Incorporated. Each plane is known as a Douglas DC-3 and weighs unloaded approximately 17,000 pounds.

Defendant’s ship had been flown to that airport from Houston, Texas, by the pilot thereof, Louis A. Labe, about a week prior to the accident and parked…