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DOWD v. TEXTRON, INC.

No. 85-1704.

792 F.2d 409 (1986)

Donna K. DOWD, Widow of Douglas Loel Dowd, Deceased; Charles D. Dowd, minor, surviving son of Douglas Loel Dowd, Deceased, by his mother and next friend, Donna K. Dowd; Dawn Dowd, minor, surviving daughter of Douglas Loel Dowd, Deceased, by her mother and next friend, Donna K. Dowd; Donna K. Dowd, Personal Representative of the Estate of Douglas Loel Dowd, Deceased; Catherine Ellis, Widow of Robert Schild Ellis, Deceased; Michael Ellis, infant, surviving son of Robert Schild Ellis, Deceased, by his mother and next friend, Catherine Ellis; Steven Ellis, infant, surviving son of Robert Schild Ellis, Deceased, by his mother and next friend, Catherine Ellis; Catherine Ellis, Personal Representative of the Estate of Robert Schild Ellis, Deceased, Appellees, v. TEXTRON, INC., a Delaware Corporation; Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc., a Division of Textron, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided May 27, 1986.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied June 25, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James W. Hunt (James M. FitzSimons, Mendes & Mount, New York City, R. David Broiles, Brown, Herman, Scott, Dean & Miles, George Galerstein, Fort Worth, Tex., Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc., Charles M. Shaffer, Jr., L. Joseph Loveland, Gary J. Toman, Jane E. Jordan, King & Spalding, Atlanta, Ga., on brief), for appellants.

John H. Green, Odessa, Tex., for appellees.

Before RUSSELL, HALL and WILKINSON, Circuit Judges.

Rehearing and Rehearing In Banc Denied June 25, 1986.

PER CURIAM:

Two servicemen, Douglas Dowd and Robert Ellis, were killed when the helicopter they were flying crashed during a flight instruction session at Patuxent River, Maryland. Donna Dowd and Catherine Ellis, the widows of the servicemen, brought suit on behalf of themselves and their children against Textron, Incorporated and its subsidiary Bell Helicopter Textron, the manufacturer of the helicopter...

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