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MEIL v. PIPER AIRCRAFT CORP.

No. 80-1477.

658 F.2d 787 (1981)

Jessie E. MEIL, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. PIPER AIRCRAFT CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

Decided September 11, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald Anderson (Ira Watrous of Watrous, Joyce & Ryan, Houston, Tex., and Elizabeth E. Whitefield, Albuquerque, N. M., with him on the brief), for plaintiff-appellee.

W. R. Logan, Albuquerque, N. M. (C. LeRoy Hansen, Civerolo, Hansen & Wolf, P. A., Albuquerque, N. M., with him on the briefs), for defendant-appellant.

Before LOGAN and BREITENSTEIN, Circuit Judges, and BROWN, United States District Judge for the District of Kansas.

BREITENSTEIN, Circuit Judge.

This is a product liability case with jurisdiction based on diversity. The plaintiff was injured when the Piper plane, which he was piloting to spray crops, crashed in New Mexico after striking a steel cable static line. The case was tried on theories of both strict liability and negligence. Judgment of $840,000 was entered on a general jury verdict. The appeal is based on insufficiency of the evidence and alleged improper instructions...

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