Widmyer v. Southeast Skyways, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• reasoning that a possible explanation of events did not preclude res ipsa loquitur instruction when there were no survivors to testify, there was no direct evidence of accident's cause, and there was heavy reliance on expert witnesses
• reasoning that a possible explanation of events did not preclude res ipsa loquitur instruction when there were no survivors to testify, there was no direct evidence of accident’s cause, and there was heavy reliance on expert witnesses
• finding defendant's exclusive control of airplane \[i]n the face of a silent record\
• finding defendant’s exclusive control of airplane “[i]n the face of a silent record”
• “While it is clear that res ipsa loquitur is applicable in general to aviation cases, it is not necessarily applicable to every such case since the specific circumstances will vary.”
• court should strike expert testimony that would not be of appreciable assistance to jury

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).