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UNITED STATES v. COMPANIA CUBANA DE AVIACION, S.A.

Nos. 15383, 15390, 15391, 15396.

224 F.2d 811 (1955)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. COMPANIA CUBANA DE AVIACION, S.A., Appellee. UNITED STATES of America, Appellant & Cross-Appellee, v. Mercedes Gutierrez Vda de Fernandez PACHECO, Appellee & Cross-Appellant. Mercedes Gutierrez Vda de Fernandez PACHECO, Appellee & Cross-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellant & Cross-Appellee. UNITED STATES of America, Appellant & Cross-Appellee, v. Gladys de Miranda Vda de SALAS, Appellee & Cross-Appellant. Gladys de Miranda Vda de SALAS, Appellee & Cross-Appellant. v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellant & Cross-Appellee. UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. Maria Matilde Ramirez Salas Vda de BAZAN, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied August 18, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James L. Guilmartin, U. S. Atty., Miami, Fla., Geo. S. Leonard, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C. (Warren E. Burger, Asst. Atty. Gen., Paul A. Sweeney, Herman Marcuse, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., on the brief), for appellant.

James Halley Ruby, Miami Beach, Fla., on the brief, for Mildred Lucille Holmes de Valencia, cross-appellant.

David W. Dyer, Douglas D. Batchelor, Miami, Fla., David L. Corbin, Matthew J. Corrigan, New York City (Smathers, Thompson, Maxwell & Dyer, Miami, Fla., Haight, Gardner, Poor & Havens, Mendes & Mount, New York City, on the brief), for appellees.

George J. Baya, Miami, Fla., on the brief for appellees, Milwaukee Mechanics Insurance Company, a corporation and Fidelity & Guaranty Insurance Company, a New York corporation.

J. Martin Wordes, Miami, Fla., Weisman, Allan, Spett & Sheinberg, New York City, on the brief, for appellees, Sadie Rosenberg, Lillian Blatt, Lillian Blatt, as Guardian ad litem of Sheila Blatt, and Lilliam Blatt, Administratrix of the Estate of Ida Rosenberg, Deceased.

Before HUTCHESON, Chief Judge, and RIVES and TUTTLE, Circuit Judges.

HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.

These are appeals by the United States from adverse judgments entered on April 19, 1954, in favor of the several plaintiffs-appellees, and dismissing the counterclaim filed by the United States against the plaintiff, Compania Cubana de Aviacion, S. A., (hereafter referred to as Cubana) in the above styled and numbered causes.

The litigation arises from the collision on April 25, 1951, off Key West, Florida, between a four-motored DC...

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