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KING v. PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS

No. 27645.

166 F.Supp. 136 (1958)

Virginia J. KING, as Administratrix of the Estate of John Elvins King, Libelant, v. PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS, a corporation, et al., Respondents.

United States District Court N. D. California, S. D.

September 30, 1958.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Smith & Parrish, Oakland, Cal., for libelant.

Steinhart, Goldberg, Feigenbaum & Ladar, San Francisco, Cal., for respondent, Pan American World Airways.

GOODMAN, Chief Judge.

This cause presents the novel question whether the California Workmen's Compensation Act precludes an action for wrongful death under the Federal Death on the High Seas Act by the administratrix of the estate of an airline employee who in the course of his employment was killed in the crash of an airliner on the high seas.

The stipulated facts show that the decedent entered the employ of respondent Pan American World Airways, a New York...

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