Legal Opinion
Nolan v. Transocean Air Lines
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided March 2, 1960No. 105, Docket 25779PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FRIENDLY, Circuit Judge.
Our principal task, in this diversity of citizenship case, is to determine what the New York courts would think the California courts would think on an issue about which neither has thought. They have had no occasion to do so. But life, here coupled with death, casts up new problems, and the court seised of the case is obliged, as best it can, itself to blaze the trail of the foreign law that it has been directed to follow.
The action was brought in the Southern District of New York for the wrongful death of Jasper W. Hall, a resident of South Carolina, who was killed…
2Cases cited22 opinions
- Mecom v. Fitzsimmons Drilling Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1931
- Emery v. EmeryCalifornia Supreme Court · 1955
- McKnett v. St. Louis & San Francisco Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1934
- Canadian Northern Railway Co. v. EggenSupreme Court of the United States · 1920
- Milliken v. PrattMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1878
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3Cited by23 opinions
- Blannie S. Wilson, Administratrix of the Estate of Henry J. Wilson, Deceased v. Johns-Manville Sales CorporationCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1982
- Emmett E. Page v. St. Louis Southwestern Railway CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1965
- Makins v. District of ColumbiaCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 2002
- Wirth Limited and Hoesch Siegerlandwerke A. G. Siegen v. S/s Acadia Forest and Lash Barge No. Cg-204, Eurogulf Lines D/B/A Central Gulf Contramar LineCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1976
- Mary S. Hopkins, Individually and as of the Estate of George D. Hopkins, Deceased v. Lockheed Aircraft CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1968
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