Grey v. American Airlines, Inc.

MEDINA, Circuit Judge.

The parents of the infant plaintiffs and twenty-six other persons met their deaths during the early hours of the morning of November 29, 1949, when defendant’s Douglas DC-6 airplane, on an international flight from New York to Mexico City, crashed at Love Field, Dallas, Texas.

While plaintiffs contended that the Warsaw Convention was not applicable, because the passenger tickets issued to decedents did not make reference to the intermediate “agreed stopping places”1 of Washington, D. C., and Dallas, Texas, motions to strike the usual Warsaw Convention limitation of…