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SCHULER v. U.S.

Nos. G84-99 CA6, G84-382 CA6.

675 F.Supp. 1088 (1987)

Janice K. SCHULER, Co-Personal Representative of the Estate of Charles F. Schuler, Deceased, Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES of America, et al., Defendants. Ethelyn M. WILSON, Personal Representative of the Estate of Richard J. Wilson, Deceased, Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES of America, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. Michigan, S.D.

September 21, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard K. Willard, Asst. Atty. Gen., John A. Smietanka, U.S. Atty., Dennis F. Carroll, Torts Branch, Civ. Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for U.S.; James S. Dillman, Asst. Chief Counsel by Jerome P. Jones, Litigation Div., F.A.A., U.S. Dept. of Transp., Washington, D.C., of counsel.

Sullivan, Ward & Bone, P.C. by Richard G. Ward, Detroit, Mich., for Teledyne Continental Motors Aircraft Prod. Div.

Zamplas, Paskin, Nagi, Baxter, Johnson & Walker, by David R. Baxter, Detroit, Mich., Bronson, Bronson & McKinnon, by Bonnie Cohen, Edwin Green (co-counsel), San Francisco, Cal., John A. Smietanka (co-counsel), by Edith A. Landman, Asst. U.S. Atty., Grand Rapids, Mich., for Cessna Aircraft.

Schaden & Heldman by Kathleen O'Brien, Birmingham, Mich., and Harry J. Knudsen (co-counsel), Muskegon, Mich., for plaintiffs.

OPINION

BENJAMIN F. GIBSON, District Judge.

This action was filed by the estates of decedents Richard Wilson ("Wilson") and Charles Schuler ("Schuler") alleging that the United States of America ("United States" or "Government") and other named defendants negligently caused the deaths of Wilson and Schuler. A bifurcated, combined jury and nonjury trial of this matter took place from November 6 to December...

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