Legal Opinion
Scott v. Middle East Airlines Co., SA
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided February 26, 1965PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PALMIER!, District Judge.
This is a motion brought by the libelant for an order granting leave to file an amended libel and for an order overruling the respondent’s exceptions to the libel.
The libelant is the executrix of the estate of William Anthony Scott who died in a crash of one of the respondent’s planes en route from Beirut, Lebanon, to Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. The action is brought under the Death on the High Seas Act, 46 U.S.C. § 761 et seq., and more particularly § 764. 1
The respondent’s sixth exception to the libel was based on the libelant’s failure to properly allege the foreign law…
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