Higa v. Transocean Airlines

WIIG, District Judge.

The facts pertinent to the determination of this motion are as follows: On July 11, 1953, one Takeichi Higa, a resident of Hawaii, was a paid passenger on a plane owned by defendant Trans-ocean Airlines, a California corporation. While en route to the Territory of Hawaii from Wake Island, the plane crashed into the sea some three hundred to four hundred miles east of Wake Island. Takeichi Higa was among those killed in the crash. Thereafter, inasmuch as there were the requisite diversity of citizenship and jurisdictional amount, plaintiff, administrator of the estate of…