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NATIONAL AIRLINES, INC. v. STILES

No. 17587.

268 F.2d 400 (1959)

NATIONAL AIRLINES, INC., Appellant, v. Beryl Whiteman STILES, Appellee. Beryl Whiteman STILES, Appellant, v. NATIONAL AIRLINES, INC., Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

June 12, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. Reid DeJarnette, Dixon, DeJarnette, Bradford & Williams, Miami, Fla., William A. Porteous, Jr., Porteous & Johnson, New Orleans, La., John H. Montgomery, Jr., George N. Tompkins, Jr., Condon & Forsyth, New York City, for respondent-appellant.

René H. Himel, Jr., Eberhard P. Deutsch and R. Emmett Kerrigan, New Orleans, La., for libelant-appellant, Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles, René H. Himel, Jr., New Orleans, La., of counsel.

Before TUTTLE, CAMERON and WISDOM, Circuit Judges.

TUTTLE, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by National Airlines from a judgment awarded Mrs. Stiles in the sum of $250,000 plus interest from the date of her husband's death in an airplane crash as being excessive as a matter of law, and a cross appeal by the wife on the ground that the record facts demanded, as a matter of law, a substantially greater judgment.

Harry Stiles was a successful New Orleans lawyer whose income from his law partnership averaged ...

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