PIPER AIRCRAFT CORP. v. YOWELL

No. 2-83-072-CV.

674 S.W.2d 447 (1984)

PIPER AIRCRAFT CORPORATION, et al. and United States Fire Insurance Co., Appellants, v. Vicki Leigh YOWELL, et al., Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Fort Worth.

June 28, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brown, Herman, Scott, Dean & Miles and Beale Dean, and Stephen C. Howell, Fort Worth, for appellants.

Byrd, Davis & Eisenberg, and Tom Davis, Austin, David Horger, Jr., Garrett, Stahala & King, Cantey, Hanger, Gooch, Munn & Collins, Fort Worth, for appellees.

Before FENDER, C.J., and HUGHES and HILL, JJ.


OPINION

FENDER, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment awarding damages to the surviving widows, parents and children of four persons who died when the Piper airplane in which they were riding, as passengers, disintegrated in mid-air. All claims with reference to the pilot have been settled and form no part of the instant appeal.

We reverse and remand with instructions.

At the trial of this cause the jury found against Piper Aircraft...

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