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COOK v. UNITED STATES

No. 64, Docket 25689.

274 F.2d 689 (1960)

Walter H. COOK, James Reid Parker and The First National Bank & Trust Company of New Canaan, Executors of the Estate of Helen E. Hokinson, Deceased, Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided January 19, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Morgan P. Ames, Stamford, Conn., and Robert T. Gilhuly, Fairfield, Conn., for appellants. Cummings & Lockwood, Stamford, Conn., of counsel.

George Cochran Doub, Asst. Atty. Gen., Harry W. Hultgren, Jr., U. S. Atty., Hartford, Conn., Alan S. Rosenthal and Seth H. Dubin, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before LUMBARD, Chief Judge, and SWAN and MAGRUDER, Circuit Judges.

SWAN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by the executors of the estate of Helen E. Hokinson, who lost her life on November 1, 1949 when an Eastern Airlines plane in which she was a passenger was struck by a Bolivian military type plane, while both were attempting to land at the Washington National Airport in Virginia. The decedent's executors seasonably brought two actions for wrongful death in the District Court for Connecticut. The action now on appeal was brought...

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