EASTERN AIR LINES, INC. v. SILBER

No. 20116.

324 F.2d 38 (1963)

EASTERN AIR LINES, INC., Appellant, v. Joan A. SILBER and William Silber, her husband, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

November 6, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. Lee Bradford, A. H. Toothman and Dixon, DeJarnette, Bradford, Williams, McKay & Kimbrell, Miami, Fla., for appellant.

J. Arthur Hawkesworth, Jr., Miami, Fla., for appellees.

Before TUTTLE, Chief Judge, and BROWN and BELL, Circuit Judges.


TUTTLE, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the trial court based on a jury verdict giving damages to the appellees for injuries suffered by the wife during the operation of a flight of appellant's aircraft. The jury was fully warranted to find that during a flight of the airplane, while in view of a storm at a distance estimated by the pilot at not less than five miles, it reacted suddenly and violently to air turbulence causing Mrs. Silber to be thrown...

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