Legal Opinion
Franklin Mint Corporation, Franklin Mint Limited, and McGregor Swire Air Services Limited v. Trans World Airlines, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided September 28, 1982No. Docket 82-7012, 999PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WINTER, Circuit Judge:
This is an appeal from a final judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Whitman Knapp, Judge, limiting the defendant’s liability under the Warsaw Convention (“Convention”) 1 for loss of cargo. In determining the limit in United States dollars, Judge Knapp utilized the last official price of gold as a unit of conversion and awarded plaintiffs $6,475.98. 525 F.Supp. 1288 (S.D.N.Y.1981). Plaintiffs appeal, claiming the limit should have been calculated by other methods. While we agree with the result reached in this case and thus…
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