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BENNETT v. ENSTROM HELICOPTER CORP.

No. 80-1814.

679 F.2d 630 (1982)

Wynette E. BENNETT, Administratrix of the Estate of Edwin N. Bennett Deceased, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. ENSTROM HELICOPTER CORPORATION, a Michigan Corporation, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided June 3, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John G. Konkel, Andrienne Southgate, Charfoos, Christensen, Gilbert & Archer, P. C., Detroit, Mich., for plaintiff-appellant.

Grant J. Gruel, Edward Wells, Cholette, Perkins & Buchanan, Grand Rapids, Mich., for defendant-appellee.

Before EDWARDS, Chief Judge, PECK, Senior Circuit Judge, and CHURCHILL, District Judge.

JOHN W. PECK, Senior Circuit Judge.

This is a conflicts of law case. Diversity of citizenship is the basis of federal jurisdiction. The issues are the usual ones in conflicts cases: which is the applicable substantive law, and what is the effect of applying it?

The underlying facts pertinent to this appeal are that plaintiff Bennett's husband died in the crash of a helicopter manufactured by defendant Enstrom. The helicopter went down in a frigid lake in New...

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