Legal Opinion
Meredith v. United Air Lines
District Court, S.D. California
Decided August 26, 1966No. Civ. A. No. 64-26-IHPublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
IRVING HILL, District Judge.
This case enables the Court to use the 1966 amendment of Federal Civil Rule 15(c) for the beneficial purposes for which the amendment was intended.
The instant case is a personal injury action based on negligence. On January 22, 1963, Plaintiff, Mrs. Meredith, was a paying passenger on a United Air Lines flight from Seattle to Los Angeles. She is a resident of Washington. Near the end of the flight, while the plane was over the vicinity of Bakersfield, California, she was standing in the restroom when she alleges that she was thrown to the floor by…
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