Legal Opinion
Hudacek v. Puerto Rico International Airlines, Inc.
District Court, D. Puerto Rico
Decided March 7, 1972No. M.D.L. No. 47; Civ. A. Nos. 70-57, 70-58, 70-61, 70-62, 70-76, 70-77 to 70-79PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
EDWARD WEINFELD, District Judge.
Plaintiffs, in their representative capacities, commenced these wrongful death1 and survival2 actions to recover damages arising out of the deaths of their respective four decedents, who were killed on March 5, 1969, while passengers in an airplane which crashed in the El Junque mountain range in the vicinity of San Juan, Puerto Rico, en-route from the island of St. Thomas to San Juan. The defendant, Puerto Rico International Airlines, Inc. (herein PRINAIR), a Puerto Rican corporation, was the owner and operator of the aircraft. The decedents were residents of…
2Cases cited56 opinions
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- Perkins v. Benguet Consolidated Mining Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1952
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- In Re Puerto Rico Air Disaster LitigationDistrict Court, D. Puerto Rico · 1972