Legal Opinion
St. Clair v. Eastern Air Lines, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided April 24, 1962No. Nos. 181, 182, Dockets 27118, 27119PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MOORE, Circuit Judge.
Harold W. St. Clair died on November 1,1949, when the Eastern Air Lines plane in which he was a passenger collided in mid-air over Washington, D. C., with a Bolivian P-38 military aircraft. Josephine St. Clair, as executrix of her deceased husband’s estate, brought separate suits for wrongful death against the United States and Eastern Air Lines, Inc. (Eastern), in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. By a stipulation approved by the district court in December, 1952, the parties to these actions agreed that the issues of situs of the…
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