Harrison v. United Fruit Company

LEVET, District Judge.

Defendant has moved to dismiss the complaint for failure to state a claim in that it does not allege the foreign law upon which the claim is predicated.

Plaintiff is a resident of Seattle, Washington, and a British subject, who was injured in an airplane accident in Honduras. He alleges that he was employed by defendant and that the airplane was owned by defendant’s wholly-owned subsidiary corporation. It is further alleged that the subsidiary is defendant’s agent in Honduras and that the pilot was an employee of the subsidiary. Plaintiff claims that the accident was…