M. B. Haynes Electric Corp. v. Justice Aero Co.

PáRKer, J.

Plaintiff assigns as error the entry of the judgment of involuntary nonsuit.

Plaintiff’s evidence tends to show: Plaintiff corporation maintains its principal office and place of business in Asheville, North Carolina. It owned a 1947 Beechcraft Bonanza airplane, which it operated for business purposes. On 12 April 1961 Marion Burton Haynes, Jr., president of plaintiff, flew this airplane from the airport near Asheville to the Raleigh-Durham Airport. N. E. Cannady, Jr., engineer, vice-president, and manager of plaintiff, was a passenger in the airplane. Haynes landed the airplane at…