YOWELL v. PIPER AIRCRAFT CORP.

No. C-3405.

703 S.W.2d 630 (1986)

Vicki Leigh YOWELL et al., Petitioners, v. PIPER AIRCRAFT CORPORATION et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Texas.

January 22, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Estil Vance, Jr., Cantey, Hanger, Gooch, Munn & Collins, Allen Howeth, Robert Stahala, Garrett, Stahala & King, Steve M. King, David Horger, Jr., Fort Worth, Tom H. Davis, Mike Davis, Byrd, Davis & Eisenberg, James H. Furman, Byrd, Davis & Eisenberg, Austin, for petitioners.

Beale Dean, Brown, Herman, Scott, Dean & Miles, Fort Worth, B. Jeff Crane, Jane F. Warmack, Vinson & Elkins, Houston, for respondents.

Daniel R. Barrett, Law Offices of James P. Wagner, Fort Worth, for intervenor.


SPEARS, Justice.

This is a wrongful death and survival case. On February 22, 1977, Howard Reed Yowell, James Luther Ward, Jr., Jimmy Kenneth Fulkerson, and Fabe Ingram, Jr. were killed in a crash of a Piper PA-31-310 aircraft near Springdale, Arkansas. The airplane sustained a mid-air breakup at about 10,000 feet and crashed to the ground. There were no survivors.

Vicki Leigh Yowell, widow of Howard Reed Yowell and executrix of the estate of Howard Reed Yowell...

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