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POPKIN v. EASTERN AIR LINES, INC.

Civ. A. Nos. 28664, 28741, 28762-28764, 28788, 28789, 29099, 29100, 29159-29162, 29274, 29275, 29615, 29616, 29724, 29768-29884, 29901, 30078, 30079, 30200, 30230, 30257-30260, 30263, 30266, 30284, 30288, 30289, 30300-30306, 30343, 30344, 30346 and Nos. 321, 323, 325, 327, 329, 335 and 375 of 1961.

204 F.Supp. 426 (1962)

Sidney W. POPKIN v. EASTERN AIR LINES, INC., and Lockheed Aircraft Corp., and General Motors Corporation and succeeding cases captioned in the orders of 10/17/61 (Document No. 24 in C. A. 28664) and 11/1/61 (Document No. 7 in C. A. 29724), except Civil Actions Nos. 30390 and 30391.

United States District Court E. D. Pennsylvania.

April 6, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

B. Nathaniel Richter, Milton M. Borowsky, Thomas E. Byrne, Jr., Ralph Earle, II, and John R. McConnell, Philadelphia, Pa., O. Jacob Tallman, Allentown, Pa., Harry D. Sporkin, David M. Hass, Abram P. Piwosky, Philadelphia, Pa., Lee S. Kreindler, New York City, for various plaintiffs.

Owen B. Rhoads and Arthur E. Newbold, III, Philadelphia, Pa., for General Motors.

Robert E. Jones, Philadelphia, Pa., for Eastern Air Lines.

Sidney L. Wickenhaver, Philadelphia, Pa., for Lockheed Aircraft.

Drew J. T. O'Keefe, U. S. Atty., Joseph H. Reiter, Asst. U. S. Atty., Max L. Kane, U. S. Dept. of Justice, for United States.

VAN DUSEN, District Judge.

These 55 cases,1 involving fatal and, as to three plaintiffs, non-fatal injuries suffered when an Electra airplane manufactured by Lockheed, having engines made by General Motors, and owned and operated by Eastern, crashed approximately one minute after take-off in Boston Harbor on October 4, 1960, are before the court on Motions to Transfer under 28 U.S.C.A. § 1404(a). There are 114 similar cases pending...

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