GREY v. AMERICAN AIRLINES

No. 73, Docket 23601.

227 F.2d 282 (1955)

Doris Sylvia GREY, infant, and Howard Martin Grey, infant, children of Harry M. Goldberg, deceased, and Sophie Goldberg, deceased, by Esther Weiner, their guardian ad litem, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. AMERICAN AIRLINES, Inc., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided November 7, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Manes, Sturim, Donovan & Laufer, New York City (Arthur M. Laufer and Samuel S. Sturim, New York City, on the brief), for plaintiffs-appellants.

Haight, Gardner, Poor & Havens, New York City (William J. Junkerman and James B. McQuillan, New York City, of counsel), for defendant-appellee.

Before HAND, MEDINA and LUMBARD, Circuit Judges.


MEDINA, Circuit Judge.

The parents of the infant plaintiffs and twenty-six other persons met their deaths during the early hours of the morning of November 29, 1949, when defendant's Douglas DC-6 airplane, on an international flight from New York to Mexico City, crashed at Love Field, Dallas, Texas.

While plaintiffs contended that the Warsaw Convention was not applicable, because the passenger tickets issued to decedents did not make reference to the intermediate...

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