Legal Opinion
Odom v. Pacific Northern Airlines, Inc.
Alaska Supreme Court
Decided June 10, 1964No. 386PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
AREND, Justice.
This is an appeal by the plaintiff below from a summary judgment and dismissal of an action sounding in tort. The principal question presented is whether an airline carrier’s traffic rule specifying that unchecked baggage or other personal property shall be carried at the risk of the passenger is invalid and unreasonable as an attempt to absolve the carrier from liability for its own negligence.
On June 14, 1960, Corinne Odom was killed when a plane of the defendant airline, in which she was traveling as a paying passenger, crashed into the face of Mount Gilbert about fifty…
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