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TRAUDT v. CITY OF CHICAGO

Gen. No. 52,168.

98 Ill. App.2d 417 (1968)

240 N.E.2d 188

Marlene J. Traudt, Administratrix of the Estate of Robert W. Traudt, Deceased, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. City of Chicago, a Municipal Corporation, Butler Aviation, a Corporation, and D.E.C. Aviation, a Foreign Corporation, Defendants-Appellees.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District, First Division.

Rehearing denied September 17, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Miller, Green & Frazin, of Chicago, for appellant.

Lord, Bissell & Brook, of Chicago (William P. Butler and Thomas W. Dempsey, of counsel), for appellee.

MR. JUSTICE MURPHY delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a wrongful death action. On December 24, 1963, the decedent, Robert W. Traudt, was piloting his private airplane with the intention of landing at Meigs Field, a public airport located in Chicago on a man-made island or peninsula in Lake Michigan. The airplane "became mechanically inoperative," and he made an emergency landing upon Lake Michigan adjacent...

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