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PIPER AIRCRAFT CORP. v. EVANS

81-140, 81-141.

424 So.2d 586 (1982)

PIPER AIRCRAFT CORPORATION v. Mary EVANS, Administratrix of the Estate of David Harem Evans, Deceased.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

December 10, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold A. Bowron, Jr., and C. William Gladden, Jr., of Balch, Bingham, Baker, Hawthorne Williams & Ward, Birmingham, for appellant.

Richard W. Bell and Mickey L. Johnson of Bell, Yeager, Allen & Johnson, Pelham, for appellee.

ALMON, Justice.

Plaintiffs brought these consolidated actions for the wrongful deaths of their decedents in the crash of an airplane manufactured by defendant Piper Aircraft Corporation (Piper). The primary contention on appeal regards an evidentiary ruling by the trial court which allowed into evidence several reports on exhaust system failures in aircraft. The trial court overruled Piper's objection to admission of the reports on the grounds, inter alia, that they...

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