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MARTIN v. UNITED STATES

Nos. PB-75-C-14, PB-75-C-117, PB-75-C-234, PB-75-C-252 and PB-76-C-110.

448 F.Supp. 855 (1977)

Joyce H. MARTIN, Executrix of the Estate of Benjamin Wilson Martin, Deceased, Mrs. Georgia G. Hendrickson, Administratrix of the Estate of Homer Hendrickson, Deceased, Sandra Allison, Individually and as next friend of Arthur J. Allison, Jr. and Lawrence Allison, minors, Mrs. J. B. Allison, Jack Allison, Mrs. Carlene Arnold Smith, Steven Lee Smith and Ragsdale Aviation, Inc., Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff, v. BEN W. MARTIN ENTERPRISES, INC., Martin Terminals Company and Logicon, Inc., Third-Party Defendants.

United States District Court, E. D. Arkansas, Pine Bluff Division.

November 29, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Coleman, Gantt, Ramsey & Cox, Pine Bluff, Ark., for Martin.

Henry Woods, Little Rock, Ark., and Charles B. Roscopf, Helena, Ark., for Hendrickson.

Tom Davis, Austin, Tex., for Allisons.

Ed Staten, Pine Bluff, Ark., and Silas B. Cooper, Jr., Abbeville, La., for Smiths.

William Overton, Little Rock, Ark., for Ragsdale.

Richard Pence, Asst. U. S. Atty., Little Rock, Ark., and Don Sime, FAA, Washington, D. C., for the U. S.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

OREN HARRIS, Senior District Judge.

The above numbered cases were commenced by the filing of complaints on behalf of the widows, survivors and estates of four men who were killed in the crash of an airplane, and by the owner of the airplane. Defendants included the alleged pilot of the airplane, the alleged corporate employers of the alleged pilot or pilots, and the United States of America. As all of the cases arose out of the same incident...

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