BROOKS v. EASTERN AIR LINES, INC.

Civ. A. No. 9277.

253 F.Supp. 119 (1966)

J. L. BROOKS, Jr., and the Fulton National Bank, as Executors of the Estates of Warner Morgan, deceased, and Jean McIntosh Morgan, deceased, and as Guardians of the property of Bonnie Jean Morgan and Lachlan McIntosh Morgan, infants, and Sara Roberts as Guardian of the persons and as next friend of Bonnie Jean Morgan and Lachlan McIntosh Morgan, Plaintiffs, v. EASTERN AIR LINES, INC., and Douglas Aircraft Company, Inc., Defendants.

United States District Court N. D. Georgia, Atlanta Division.

April 13, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sheats, Parker & Webb, Atlanta, Ga., Kreindler & Kreindler, New York City, for plaintiff.

Gambrell, Harlan, Russell & Moye, Atlanta, Ga., for Eastern Air Lines.

Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy, Atlanta, Ga., for Douglas Aircraft Co.


SIDNEY O. SMITH, District Judge.

This is an action in which plaintiffs seek to recover for the wrongful death of decedents who were killed when an airplane manufactured by defendant Douglas Aircraft Company, Inc., and owned, operated, maintained and controlled by defendant Eastern Air Lines, Inc., crashed into Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana. In the Third, Fourth, Seventh, and Eighth claims of their petition, plaintiffs assert that defendant Douglas is liable for breach...

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