Garcia v. Pan American Airways, Inc.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the CourtHagarty, J.
An airplane known as the “ Yankee Clipper ”, owned by respondent, a domestic corporation engaged in business as a common carrier, and piloted by its employee Sullivan, left La Guardia Airport on the 21st day of February, 1943, bound for Lisbon, Portugal, with intermediate stops at Bermuda and the Azores. The following day, it crashed into the waters of the Tagus River at Lisbon. Nineteen passengers and five crew members were fatally injured in the accident. One of the fatally injured passengers was Manuel Diaz, who, at the time of his death, resided in the county of Westchester, in this…
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