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BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON, INC. v. ABBOTT

No. 06-92-00060-CV.

863 S.W.2d 139 (1993)

BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON, INC., Appellant, v. Mary Jane ABBOTT, et al., Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Texarkana.

Rehearing Denied September 21, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Patrick Smith, Houston, TX, Atty. Ad Litem for Matthew & Jeremy Abbott.

John R. Mercy, Atchley, Russell, Waldrop, Hlavinka, Texarkana, TX, Reagan Brown, Ben Taylor, Fulbright & Jaworski, Houston, TX, for appellant Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc.

Joe H. Reynolds, Reynolds & Cunningham, Michael Sydow, Kelli McDonald, Houston, TX, for appellee Mary Jane Abbott.

Before CORNELIUS, C.J., and BLEIL and GRANT, JJ.

OPINION

CORNELIUS, Chief Justice.

Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc. appeals from a judgment in a bench trial awarding damages to Mary Jane Abbott and others for the death of Jeremy Abbott in a helicopter crash. A threshold question is whether Bell was improperly denied a jury trial. Because we find that Bell was entitled to a jury trial, we must reverse the judgment.

Jeremy Abbott and another passenger were...

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