Biddy v. Blue Bird Air Service

This action was instituted in the superior court of Cook county against the Blue Bird Air Service, a corporation, the Blue Bird Air Transport, Inc., and Michael A. Caffarello, defendants, to recover damages for the alleged wrongful death of Ralph L. Biddy, plaintiff’s intestate. Defendants appealed from a judgment for plaintiff and brought the case direct to this court, a constitutional question being involved.

Biddy was a resident of Michigan and employed by the Wilding Pictures Productions, Inc., (referred to as the Picture Company,) as a camera man taking motion pictures. The Picture…