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COX v. McDONNELL-DOUGLAS CORP.

No. 81-1046.

665 F.2d 566 (1982)

Mrs. Sharon COX, Individually and As Next Friend for Her Minor Children, Bridgette Cox, Jennifer Marie Cox and John Thomas Cox, and As Community Survivor of John T. Cox, Deceased, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. McDONNELL-DOUGLAS CORP., et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied February 2, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Papadakis, Betts & Cooke, John A. Betts, Houston, Tex., William D. Lynch, Spivey, Hazel & Grigg, Paul E. Knisely, Broadus Spivey, Austin, Tex., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Graves, Dougherty, Hearon, Moody & Garwood, John T. Anderson, Robert J. Hearon, Austin, Tex., for defendants-appellees.

Before THORNBERRY, TATE and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

TATE, Circuit Judge:

The plaintiffs' decedent, an air force captain, was killed on February 13, 1970, when his aircraft crashed in Idaho. On January 5, 1978, almost eight years later, Captain Cox's widow and his three minor children brought this wrongful death action in a Texas federal district court against McDonnell-Douglas Corporation and its affiliated companies ("McDonnell-Douglas"), which designed and manufactured the aircraft. The aircraft was designed and...

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