POTTER v. HARTZELL PROPELLER, INC.

Nos. 42520, 42957.

189 N.W.2d 499 (1971)

L. A. POTTER, agent for the shareholders of LFD Company, formerly known as the Louis F. Dow Company, Respondent, v. HARTZELL PROPELLER, INC., Respondent. MAXWELL AIRCRAFT SERVICE, INC., defendant and third-party plaintiff, Appellant, v. GOPHER AVIATION, INC., third-party defendant, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

August 13, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Coulter, Nelson & Sullivan, Minneapolis, for appellant.

Meagher, Geer, Markham & Anderson and M. J. Coyne and O. C. Adamson, II, Minneapolis, for L. A. Potter.

Carroll, Cornan, Roth & Austin, Minneapolis, for Hartzell Propeller, Inc.

Faegre & Benson, and W. James Fitzmaurice, Minneapolis, for Gopher Aviation, Inc.

Heard before KNUTSON, C. J., and NELSON, OTIS, PETERSON, and KELLY, JJ.


OPINION

PER CURIAM.

Plaintiff's aircraft crashed on a flight from Florida on January 3, 1965, resulting in total loss of the aircraft. Plaintiff recovered from defendant Maxwell Aircraft Service, Inc., the sum of $66,000, plus interest from the date of loss.

The aircraft, a 1957 model E-18-S twin-engined Beechcraft, was purchased by plaintiff on February 6, 1963. It was equipped at that time with Pratt...

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