Legal Opinion
Nolan v. Transocean Air Lines
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided May 29, 1961No. 366, Docket 25779PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FRIENDLY, Circuit Judge.
When this case was previously before us, 2 Cir., 1960, 276 F.2d 280, 281, we stated our principal task as being “to determine what the New York courts would think the California courts would think on an issue about which neither has thought.” Prophecy remains the problem; but the area of perplexity has shifted from the void we then considered as presenting the principal question to ground we believed to be firmly occupied by apposite decisions of lower California courts, now called into question by the dictum of a higher one.
We recognized in our prior opinion, 276 F.2d…
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