Legal Opinion
Pardonnet v. Flying Tiger Line, Inc.
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided June 19, 1964No. 63 C 67PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DECKER, District Judge.
This case involves a libel in admiralty, filed by the personal representative of a deceased, who was killed in an air line crash on the high seas. This Court has jurisdiction under an act entitled, “Death on the High Seas by Wrongful Act,” 46 U.S.C. § 761.
Respondent has filed a special appearance and exception to the jurisdiction of this Court on the ground that the Warsaw Convention, 49 Stat. 3000, a treaty to which the United States is a party, provides that the only United States court which could have jurisdiction of this cause of action is in California.…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Wallace Higa, Administrator of the Estate of Takeichi Higa, Deceased v. Transocean Airlines, a CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1956
- Iafrate v. Compagnie Generale TransatlantiqueDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1952
- Joseph M. Trihey, Administrator of the Estate of Maria G. Muna, Deceased v. Transocean Air Lines, Inc., a CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1958
- Fernandez v. Linea Aeropostal VenezolanaDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1957
- Hill v. Merchants' Mutual InsuranceSupreme Court of the United States · 1890
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3Cited by10 opinions
- Executive Jet Aviation, Inc. v. City of ClevelandSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Shirley J. Lindsay, of the Estate of John Douglas Lindsay, Deceased v. McDonnell Douglas Aircraft Corporation, a CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1972
- Edmund J. Smith v. Canadian Pacific Airways, Ltd.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1971
- Rosman v. Trans World Airlines, Inc.New York Court of Appeals · 1974
- Bartlett-Collins Co. v. Surinam Navigation Co.Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1967
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