Legal Opinion
James v. Federal Insurance Co.
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Decided June 5, 1950PublishedCited by 72 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Vanderbilt, O. J.
This is an appeal from a judgment of the Law Division of the Superior Court entered on a jury verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of $4,470. The case was certified by this Court on its own motion while it was pending in the Appellate Division of the Superior Court.
The facts in the case are not in dispute. The plaintiff took off in his Stinson Voyager aircraft from the Lincoln Park Airport, Morris County, with three friends as passengers to view a forest fire in the nearby Ramapo Mountains. The plane started to climb and got…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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3Cited by72 opinions
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