KROPP v. DOUGLAS AIRCRAFT CO.

No. 66-C-562.

329 F.Supp. 447 (1971)

Dorothy KROPP, as Administratrix of the Estate of Charles R. Kropp, Deceased, Plaintiff, v. DOUGLAS AIRCRAFT CO., Inc. and the United States of America, Defendants.

United States District Court, E. D. New York.

June 25, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Theodore E. Wolcott, New York City, for plaintiff; Howard G. Law, Jr., New York City, of counsel.

Crowe, McCoy & Agoglia, Garden City, N. Y., for Douglas Aircraft Co., Inc.; Harold V. McCoy, Morris Zweibel, New York City, of counsel.

Edward R. Neaher, U. S. Atty., Eastern Dist. of New York, for the United States; by Philip Silverman, Trial Atty., U. S. Dept. of Justice.


ZAVATT, District Judge.

This is an action to recover damages for the death of Charles R. Kropp (Kropp), an employee of Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation (Grumman), which occurred over the high seas (approximately fifty miles East of Montauk Point, Long Island, New York) when he exited an A3A aircraft, manufactured by the defendant Douglas Aircraft Co., Inc. (Douglas), owned by the defendant United States of America (the Government) and piloted by one Donald...

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