Legal Opinion
Cressman v. United Air Lines, Inc.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided January 31, 1958PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
IRVING R. KAUFMAN, District J udge.
By this motion defendant Trans World Airlines, Inc. seeks to transfer the action pending against it and co-defendant United Air Lines, Inc., from the Southern District of New York to the Western District of Missouri in Kansas City, pursuant to Section 1404(a), 28 U.S.C.A. 1
This is a wrongful death action arising out of the Grand Canyon aviation crash of June 30, 1956, in which 128 people were killed. On the day in question, the deceased, Sally Cressman, boarded at Los Angeles, California, a plane owned and operated by defendant T.W.A. en route to Kansas…
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