TRANSPORTES AEREOS NACIONALES v. DE BRENES

Nos. 92-925, 92-1408.

625 So.2d 4 (1993)

TRANSPORTES AEREOS NACIONALES, S.A., a foreign corporation and Servicio Aereo De Honduras, S.A., a foreign corporation, Appellants, v. Tania Flores DE BRENES, individually and as Executor, Administrator, or Personal Representative of the Estate of Erick Antonio Brenes, Decedent, for herself and on behalf of the Decedent's survivors, and Claudia Crow, for hHerself and as Executor, Administrator or Personal Representative of the Estates of Alfonso G. Wong-Valle and Maria Wong-Valle, Deceased, et al., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing Denied November 3, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Condon & Forsyth, Desmond T. Barry, Jr., Marilyn P. O'Mara, New York City, Steel Hector & Davis, Thomas Scott, Adalberto Jordan, Thornton, David, Murray, Richard & Davis and John M. Murray, Miami, for appellants.

Speiser, Krause, Madole & Mendelsohn, Mata, San Antonio, TX, Podhurst, Orseck, Josefsberg, Eaton, Meadow, Olin & Perwin and Joel D. Eaton, Miami, for appellees.

Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and FERGUSON and LEVY, JJ.


FERGUSON, Judge.

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