Gatenby v. Altoona Aviation Corporation

OPINION

WEBER, District Judge.

Gatenby and Mole, plaintiffs’ decedents, were British citizens, residents of England, employees of the British Admiralty, visiting the United States on behalf of their employer in connection with the joint activity of the British Government and the Government of the United States. The British Embassy in Washington, D. C. placed a telephone order to defendant, Altoona Aviation Corporation, a Pennsylvania corporation, operating a licensed air taxi service, whose sole place of business is at Al-toona, Pennsylvania. The corporation dispatched an airplane to the…