HUMPHREYS v. TANN

No. 72-2225.

487 F.2d 666 (1973)

George H. HUMPHREYS, Administrator of the Estate of John S. Humphreys, Deceased, and George H. Humphreys, Individually, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Herman TANN et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided November 21, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Theodore E. Wolcott, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiff-appellant.

Walter E. Rutherford, Haight, Gardner, Poor & Havens, New York City, H. Thomas Haacke, Jr., Dayton, Ohio, for defendants-appellees.

Before PHILLIPS, Chief Judge, and PECK and LIVELY, Circuit Judges.


LIVELY, Circuit Judge.

John S. Humphreys, a resident of New York, was killed on March 9, 1967 in a mid-air collision between the Trans World Airlines (TWA) jetliner on which he was a passenger and a smaller Beech Baron aircraft owned by The Tann Company (Tann), a partnership. The collision occurred near Urbana, Ohio as the TWA plane was preparing to land at the Dayton, Ohio airport. No occupant of either plane survived. Numerous law suits were filed in various state...

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