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ESTATE OF PORTNOY v. CESSNA AIRCRAFT CO.

Civ. A. No. S83-0011(R).

603 F.Supp. 285 (1985)

The ESTATE OF David L. PORTNOY, Deceased, Jerri Bridges, Administratrix, Plaintiff, v. The CESSNA AIRCRAFT COMPANY, Defendant, v. MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF AVIATION, et al., Attachment Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. Mississippi, S.D.

February 20, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Floyd J. Logan, Gulfport, Miss., for Estate of David Portney.

Eaton A. Lang, Jr., Gulfport, Miss., Thomas C. Gerity, Watkins & Eager, Jackson, Miss., for Cessna Aircraft Company.

Roy C. Williams, Megehee, Brown, Williams & Mestayer, Pascagoula, Miss., for Victory Aircraft Inc.

Robert Alan Byrd, Biloxi, Miss., Charles R. Davis, Alex A. Alston, Jr., David A. Bowers, Jackson, Miss., for Mississippi School of Aviation.

H. D. Brock, Greenwood, Miss., for Kimmel Aviation, Inc.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

DAN M. RUSSELL, Jr., District Judge.

The case in chief originally arose out of the crash of a military airplane, a Cessna 02A, in the waters of the Mississippi Sound near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, on November 11, 1976. David L. Portnoy, a resident of Pennsylvania and Staff Sergeant in the Pennsylvania Air National Guard, was killed in the crash. Jerri Bridges, a Mississippi resident and secretary of counsel for the plaintiffs, was appointed...

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