PEOPLE EX REL. COMPAGNIE NATIONALE AIR FRANCE v. GILIBERTO

Nos. 50584, 50769.

74 Ill.2d 90 (1978)

383 N.E.2d 977

THE PEOPLE ex rel. COMPAGNIE NATIONALE AIR FRANCE, Petitioner, v. LOUIS J. GILIBERTO, Judge, et al., Respondents. — EITAN ARONOWITCH et al., Appellees, v. COMPAGNIE NATIONALE AIR FRANCE et al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed December 4, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald M. Haskell and Michael J. Sehr, of Haskell & Perrin, of Chicago (William J. Junkerman, William F. Martin, Jr., and Haight, Gardner, Poor & Havens, of New York, New York, of counsel), for appellant Compagnie Nationale Air France.

Stuart M. Speiser, John J. Kennelly, and Kevin M. Forde, of Chicago (Stuart M. Speiser, Charles F. Krause, Lawrence Goldhirsch, Howard S. Chapman, Kevin M. Forde, Mary C. Morrissy, and John J. Kennelly, of Speiser and Krause, of New York, New York, and Paul H. Baris, Esq., of Tel Aviv, Israel, Theodore Klein, of Paris, France, and David M. Lack, Q.C., of Montreal, Canada, of counsel), for appellees.

Donald M. Haskell and Michael J. Sehr, of Haskell & Perrin, of Chicago (William J. Junkerman, William F. Martin, Jr., and Haight, Gardner, Poor & Havens, of New York, New York, of counsel), for appellant Compagnie Nationale Air France.

Heineke & Schrader, of Chicago (Mendes & Mount, of New York, New York, of counsel), for appellant Singapore Airlines, Ltd.

Stuart M. Speiser, John J. Kennelly, and Kevin M. Forde, of Chicago (Stuart M. Speiser, Charles F. Krause, Lawrence Goldhirsch, Howard S. Chapman, Kevin M. Forde, Mary C. Morrissy, and John J. Kennelly, of Speiser and Krause, of New York, New York, and Paul H. Baris, Esq., of Tel Aviv, Israel, Theordore Klein, of Paris, France, and David M. Lack, Q.C., of Montreal, Canada, of counsel), for appellees.


Petition dismissed. Order vacated; cause remanded.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WARD delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiff Eitan Aronowitch and some 80 other named plaintiffs brought an action in the circuit court of Cook County against the defendants, Compagnie Nationale Air France (Air France), Singapore Airlines, Ltd. (Singapore), and Gulf Air Lines (Gulf), to recover damages for injuries suffered by the plaintiffs or for the deaths of the decedents of some...

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