CUDNEY v. MIDCONTINENT AIRLINES

No. 42802.

254 S.W.2d 662 (1953)

CUDNEY v. MIDCONTINENT AIRLINES, Inc., et al.

Supreme Court of Missouri, En Banc.

February 9, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Coburn, Storckman & Croft, White & Hall and Clem F. Storckman, St. Louis, for appellant.

Lashly, Lashly & Miller and John H. Lashly, St. Louis, for respondents.


BARRETT, Commissioner.

On the 6th day of September 1946 Mrs. Dora R. Cudney, then sixty-three years of age, was, for her first trip in an airplane, a passenger on the Midcontinent Airlines' twenty-one passenger plane. She sat in single seat number twelve on the right-hand side of the plane. The plane was a DC-3 and there were nineteen other passengers, a pilot, a co-pilot and a stewardess. The flight was from Kansas City to Omaha, 164 miles, normally a fifty-six minute...

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