Legal Opinion
Joseph F. Smith v. Piedmont Aviation, Inc., and Delta Air Lines, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided February 2, 1978No. 76-2482PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COLEMAN, Circuit Judge.
The District Court, sitting without a jury, awarded the appellee, Joseph F. Smith, compensatory damages in the amount of $1,051.80 and punitive damages in the sum of $1,500 for Piedmont’s failure to comply with § 404(b) of the Federal Aviation Act of 1958, 49 U.S.C., § 1374(b). 1 We affirm as to compensatory damages and reverse the award of punitive damages.
In early April 1974, Joseph Smith, appel-lee, through Delta Air Lines in Dallas, made a reservation for April 26, 1974, on Piedmont Flight 944 from Atlanta, Georgia, to Bluefield, West Virginia. He was to be a…
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- Greyhound Corporation, a Corporation v. Paul F. JonesCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1964
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