Ayala v. Airborne Transport Inc.

The four plaintiffs herein, together with a fifth plaintiff, the Public Administrator of the County of New York, brought this action originally as representatives of five passengers in an airplane operated by defendant, which disappeared in the course of a flight. The Public Administrator’s cause of *487action was severed, granted a preference and tried separately. Asserting that the Public Administrator had failed to establish a prima facie case, the defendant upon that trial rested without introducing any evidence. A verdict and judgment in favor of the plaintiff resulted, which judgment was…