Werkley v. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N. V.

RYAN, District Judge.

The situation here presented is set forth in our memorandum dated January 28, 1952. D.C., 110 F.Supp. 746. We then left to be determined whether leave should be granted to plaintiff, suing as administratrix of her husband’s estate, to amend her complaint pleading a claim for loss of expectancy of life arising under Indian* law. We have held that the law of that country is the measure of the rights arising from the alleged wrongful death. We also ruled that if the Indian Carriage by Air Act governed, no claim inuring to the direct benefit of the deceased’s estate, as such,…