Legal Opinion
Rosman v. Trans World Airlines, Inc.
New York Court of Appeals
Decided June 13, 1974PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtRabin, J.
At issue is whether, by virtue of defendant’s absolute liability for “ death or wounding * * * or any other bodily injury ” as set out in article 17 of the Warsaw Convention [49 U. S. Stat. 3014, 3018], plaintiffs may recover any damages for psychic trauma suffered on board a hijacked aircraft. The preliminary question, in the context of plaintiffs’ motions for summary judgment, is whether any triable issue of fact has been presented as to the meaning of critical terms of article 17, the official text of which is in French. For reasons which follow, we conclude that the precise meaning of…
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