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CROCE v. BROMLEY CORP.

No. 78-2627.

623 F.2d 1084 (1980)

Ingrid CROCE, Administratrix of the Estate of James Joseph Croce, etc., et al., Plaintiffs, Linda Cortese et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. BROMLEY CORPORATION, doing business as Roberts Airways and Mustang Aviation, Inc., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

August 14, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. W. Anderson, Robert C. Johnson, Dallas, Tex., for Mustang.

Royal H. Brin, Jr., Patrick F. McGowan, Dallas, Tex., for Bromley.

Thomas A. Demetrio, Chicago, Ill., Tom Davis, George M. Fleming, Austin, Tex., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before AINSWORTH and GEE, Circuit Judges, and HUNTER, District Judge.

GEE, Circuit Judge:

On the evening of September 20, 1973, a Beech Model 18 Aircraft carrying singer Jim Croce and his entourage (the "Jim Croce Group" or the "group") crashed shortly after takeoff from the Natchitoches, Louisiana, airport. Among those killed was Croce's road manager, Kenneth Dominick Cortese, whose wife and son are the plaintiffs in this wrongful death action.1

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