NOEL v. LINEA AEROPOSTAL VENEZOLANA

No. 368, Docket 24491.

247 F.2d 677 (1957)

Ruth M. NOEL and Wm. H. Frantz, Executors of the Estate of Marshal L. Noel, Deceased, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. LINEA AEROPOSTAL VENEZOLANA, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided August 9, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry Norman Ball and Joseph G. Feldman, Philadelphia, Pa., and Lipper, Shinn & Keeley, New York City (Morris L. Weisberg, Philadelphia, Pa., of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellants.

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

Before CHASE, HINCKS and LUMBARD, Circuit Judges.


LUMBARD, Circuit Judge.

The narrow issue in this case is whether plaintiff may bring a civil action based on either the Warsaw Convention, 49 Stat. 3000 (1934), or the Federal Death on the High Seas Act, 46 U.S.C.A. §§ 761-767, for a death which allegedly occurred in the airspace over the high seas.

Since this case was disposed of on a dismissal of the complaint, the facts before us are those alleged in the complaint, as amended.

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