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GORE v. NORTHEAST AIRLINES, INC.

222 F.Supp. 50 (1963)

H. Grady GORE, Jr., as Executor under the Last Will and Testament of Gordon Dean, deceased, Plaintiff, v. NORTHEAST AIRLINES, INC., Defendant.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

July 16, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kramer, Marx, Greenlee & Backus and Speiser, Shumate, Geoghan & Law, New York City, for plaintiff; Stuart M. Speiser, New York City, of counsel.

Haight, Gardner, Poor & Havens, New York City, for defendant; William J. Junkerman, James B. McQuillan, New York City, of counsel.

McGOHEY, District Judge.

The plaintiff who, in this wrongful death action arising out of the crash of a Northeast plane at Nantucket, Massachusetts, is asking damages of $1,750,000, has moved to strike the affirmative defense that the Massachusetts Wrongful Death Statute, pursuant to which the action is brought, limits the recoverable damages to $15,000.1 The motion is denied.

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