UNITED AIR LINES, INC. v. WIENER

No. 16860.

286 F.2d 302 (1961)

UNITED AIR LINES, INC., Appellant, v. Janice WIENER, as Executrix of the Estate of Norton Wiener, Deceased, and Related Cases, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied February 15, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Chase, Rotchford, Downen & Drukker, Los Angeles, Cal., for UAL, Inc., appellant.

Margolis & McTernan, Los Angeles, Cal., Frank B. Belcher, Leo J. Biegenzahn, Belcher, Henzie & Fargo, James A. Withers, Harold R. Spence and August F. Mack, Jr., Richard L. Oliver, Oliver, Good & Sloan, Samuel A. Miller, Norman Pittluck, Los Angeles, Cal., Jack Dunaway, Hollywood, Cal., Francis J. Garvey, Covina, Cal., John H. Poole, Barrick, Poole & Olsen, Pasadena, Cal., John C. Gregory and Richard McLeod, William F. Clements, Collins & Clements, Los Angeles, Cal., Stanley Zipser, Pastor & Zipser, Beverly Hills, Cal. (Victor A. Gormam, Johnson & Ladenberger, Los Angeles, Cal., of counsel), for appellee.

Before HAMLIN and JERTBERG, Circuit Judges, and WALSH, District Judge.


HAMLIN, Circuit Judge.

On April 21, 1958, near Las Vegas, Nevada, there was a mid-air collision between an airplane owned and operated by the United States of America and a passenger plane owned and operated by United Air Lines, herein referred to as United. All persons in each airplane were killed in the collision. Twenty-three actions for damages against United and the United States were filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California...

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