WINBOURNE v. EASTERN AIR LINES, INC.

No. 439, Docket 79-6156.

632 F.2d 219 (1980)

Ernest Glenn WINBOURNE, Jr., Individually, and as the Admr. of the Estate of Paule Charlotte Adamante, Wife of Ernest Glenn Winbourne, Jr., Paule Aime Winbourne, and Christine Jacqueline Winbourne, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. EASTERN AIR LINES, INC., Defendant-Appellant, and Fifteen Consolidated Cases.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided October 6, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Melvin I. Friedman, Milton G. Sincoff, Kreindler & Kreindler, New York City, for plaintiffs-appellees, O'Rourke and Gabay.

Chauncey E. Wilowski, Jamaica, N. Y., for plaintiff-appellee, O'Rourke.

Kierr, Gainsburgh, Benjamin, Fallon & Lewis, New Orleans, La., for plaintiffs-appellees, Bright and Hickey.

Jobe & Gurley, New Orleans, La., for plaintiffs-appellees, Winbourne and Domangue.

Healey & Farrell, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff-appellee, Mahfoud.

Geoghan & Tutrone, New York City, for the Hansen plaintiffs-appellees.

Phillips & Cappiello, New York City, for plaintiff-appellee, Cappiello.

Frank H. Granito, Jr., New York City, Co-Liaison and Trial Counsel.

Walter E. Rutherford, Alan D. Reitzfeld, Haight, Gardner, Poor & Havens, New York City, for defendant-appellant, Eastern Air Lines, Inc.

Before WATERMAN, MOORE and MANSFIELD, Circuit Judges.


WATERMAN, Circuit Judge:

Eastern Air Lines, Inc. (Eastern), in a proceeding limited to the issue of liability only, appeals judgments entered against it in 16 cases in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Bramwell, J. The district court had granted motions for summary judgment and judgment on the pleadings, Winbourne v. Eastern Air Lines, Inc., 479 F.Supp. 1130 (E.D.N.Y. 1979); and a request...

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