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VARKONYI v. EMPRESSA DE VIACAO

71 Misc.2d 607 (1972)

Livia Varkonyi, Plaintiff, v. S. A. Empresa De Viacao Airea Rio Grandense (Varig) et al., Defendants. Nancy M. Faulkner et al., Plaintiffs, v. S. A. Empresa De Viacao Airea Rio Grandense (Varig) et al., Defendants.

Supreme Court, Special Term, New York County.

September 15, 1972

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Reynolds, Wolcott & Flack (Theodore E. Wolcott of counsel), for plaintiffs. Condon & Forsyth (George N. Tompkins, Jr., and Thomas J. Whalen of counsel), for S. A. Empresa de Viacao and another, defendants. Mendes & Mount (James M. FitzSimons of counsel), for Boeing Company, defendant.

PAUL A. FINO, J.

In these consolidated actions for wrongful death stemming from an airline crash, the defendant S. A. Empresa De Viacao Airea Rio Grandense (Varig) moves to dismiss the complaint for lack of jurisdiction of the subject matter. All the parties are nonresidents suing upon an out-of-State tort. The motion turns essentially upon certain terms of the Warsaw Convention (49 U. S. Stat. 3000) and their...

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