WARREN v. FLYING TIGER LINE, INC.

Nos. 19572-19575, 19587, 19588-19592, 19594-19596, 19598-19600, 19603, 19604, 19606, 19608.

352 F.2d 494 (1965)

John S. WARREN, as Special Administrator of the Estate of James D. Bowen, Deceased, Appellant, v. The FLYING TIGER LINE, INC., a corporation, Appellee. Klara GLYNN, Administratrix of the Estate of Walter Glynn, Appellant, v. The FLYING TIGER LINE, INC., a corporation, Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, Appellees. Sue PRATHER, Administratrix of the Estate of Douglas Arnold Haaf, Appellant, v. The FLYING TIGER LINE, INC., a corporation, Appellee. Thelma Jean KISSEE, Administratrix of the Estate of Charles Edward Kissee, Deceased, Appellant, v. The FLYING TIGER LINE, INC., a corporation, Appellee. Joyce GLASSMAN, Administratrix of the Estate of Robert Glassman, Deceased, and Joyce Glassman, an individual, Appellants, v. The FLYING TIGER LINE, INC., a corporation, Appellee. Floyd A. DEMANES, Administrator of the Estate of Hubert L. Rice, Deceased, et al., Appellants, v. The FLYING TIGER LINE, INC., a corporation, et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

October 25, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stanley I. Arenberg, Jerome L. Goldberg, Herman F. Selvin, Loeb & Loeb, Los Angeles, Cal., for appellant John S. Warren.

Robert D. Cloud, Mathews & Cloud, Rialto, Cal., for appellant Klara Glynn.

Daniel C. Cathcart and Ellis J. Horvitz, Magana, Olney, Levy, Cathcart & Gelfand, Los Angeles, Cal., for appellant Sue Prather.

Charles Zeller, Stockton, Cal., Jerome L. Goldberg, Los Angeles, Cal., for appellant Thelma Jean Kissee.

William J. Scammon, San Mateo, Cal., for appellant Joyce Glassman, Administratrix, etc.

Floyd A. Demanes, San Bruno, Cal., for appellants Floyd A. Demanes, Administrator of Estate of Rice, et al.

Robert C. Packard, Kirtland & Packard, Los Angeles, Cal., for appellee Flying Tiger Line, Inc.

John W. Douglas, Asst. Atty. Gen., Morton Hollander, Richard S. Salzman, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C.

Before BARNES, HAMLEY and KOELSCH, Circuit Judges.


HAMLEY, Circuit Judge:

The multiple appeals dealt with in this opinion arise from individual libels against The Flying Tiger Line, Inc. (Flying Tiger), and others, seeking damages under the Death on the High Seas Act, 41 Stat. 537 (1920), 46 U.S.C. §§ 761-768 (1964).

In March, 1962, an aircraft owned and operated by Flying Tiger, disappeared en route from Travis Air Force Base, California to Vietnam. The plane was under charter to the United States...

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