Manion v. Pan American World Airways, Inc.

OPINION OF THE COURT

Chief Judge Cooke.

This case involves the limitations of carriers’ liability to international air passengers under the Warsaw Convention, and the conditions that an airline must meet to be protected by those limitations. The court holds that, if the defendant airline failed to deliver a ticket to plaintiff when the airline accepted her as a passenger at the outset of her trip, the airline may not invoke the liability ceilings of the Convention. The order of the Appellate Division therefore should be reversed.

Robyn Haggard, then 16 years old, was a passenger on a Pan…