Legal Opinion
Meltzer v. National Airlines, Inc.
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided May 8, 1962No. Civ. A. Nos. 28242, 28243, 29321-29347PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN W. LORD, Jr., District Judge.
On January 6, 1960, one of defendant’s aircraft was bound for Florida on a nighttime flight from New York. While *48flying over Bolivia, North Carolina, it was apparently destroyed in flight, and crashed near Wilmington, North Carolina. The lives of all on board were lost, and the 27 wrongful death actions in this case are one of the aftermaths.
The foregoing reference to the number of cases as being 27, despite the fact that there are 29 civil action numbers listed in the caption, is not an inadvertence : 28242 is duplicated by 29336, and 28243 by 29337.…
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