HARRIS CORP. v. COMAIR, INC.

No. 81-5358.

712 F.2d 1069 (1983)

HARRIS CORPORATION, Data Communications Division, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. COMAIR, INCORPORATED; Piper Aircraft Corporation; the Garrett Corporation; G & N Aircraft, Inc.; Daniel Snyder d/b/a the Accessory Shop; John Does, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided July 20, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. Henry Kramer, Kramer & Humpert, Edgewood, Ky., Ronald L.M. Goldman (argued), Marina del Rey, Cal., for plaintiff-appellant.

John W. Beatty (argued), D. Gary Reed, Cincinnati, Ohio, for Comair.

John J. O'Hara, Arnold Taylor, Covington, Ky., for Piper.

G.R. Wilson, Rodney S. Bryson, Covington, Ky., for Garrett.

John L. Bennett, Lee E. Sitlinger, Louisville, Ky., for G & N Aircraft.

Frank V. Benton, IV, Newport, Ky., for Accessory Shop.

Before MARTIN and KRUPANSKY, Circuit Judges, and NEESE, District Judge.


BOYCE F. MARTIN, Jr., Circuit Judge.

Harris Corporation appeals the dismissal of its action against Comair, Inc., a Kentucky-based commuter airline, and other defendants. The case arose out of a plane crash in Florence, Kentucky, on October 8, 1979. One of the passengers who died was Jeffery Lake, a Harris employee. Harris, a self-insurer under the Ohio Worker's Compensation Act, paid death benefits to Lake's widow. Harris...

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