Marilyn W. Pearson, as Administratrix of the Goods, Chattels, and Credits of John S. Pearson, Deceased v. Northeast Airlines, Inc.

*132SWAN, Circuit Judge.

This appeal involves litigation which resulted from the crash, on August 15, 1958, of appellant’s airplane on Nantucket Island. Mrs. Pearson as administra-trix of her deceased husband’s estate brought suit in the Southern District of New York, federal jurisdiction resting on diversity of citizenship, she being a citizen of New York and defendant a Massachusetts corporation. Her complaint alleged seven causes of action,1 but there remains for consideration on the appeal only the cause of action based on the Massachusetts wrongful death act, which limits recovery to $15,000,…