Legal Opinion
Kilberg v. Northeast Airlines, Inc.
New York Court of Appeals
Decided January 12, 1961PublishedCited by 193 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Chief Judge Desmond.
Defendant is a common carrier of passengers by air. Plaintiff’s intestate, a passenger on one of defendant’s planes, was killed in August, 1958 when the airship crashed and burned at Nantucket, Massachusetts, in the course of a flight from a New York airport. The complaint pleads three causes of action but this appeal has to do, immediately, with the second count only. That part of the complaint has been dismissed for insufficiency by the Appellate Division which reversed Special Term’s denial of defendant’s motion to dismiss. Plaintiff appeals here from the dismissal. We…
2Cases cited41 opinions
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- Whitford v. . the Panama Railroad CompanyNew York Court of Appeals · 1861
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3Cited by193 opinions
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- Kuchinic v. McCrorySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1966
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