PORTER v. SOUTHEASTERN AVIATION, INC.

Civ. A. No. 2882.

191 F.Supp. 42 (1961)

Mrs. Mildred Brown PORTER, Plaintiff, v. SOUTHEASTERN AVIATION, INC., Defendant.

United States District Court M. D. Tennessee, Nashville Division.

January 18, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tyree B. Harris III, of Hooker, Keeble, Dodson & Harris, Nashville, Tenn., for plaintiff.

Charles L. Cornelius, Jr., of Cornelius & Collins, Nashville, Tenn., Russell Kramer and Erma G. Greenwood, of Kramer, Dye, McNabb & Greenwood, Knoxville, Tenn., for defendant.


WILLIAM E. MILLER, District Judge.

This is an action to recover damages for the alleged wrongful death of plaintiff's intestate, who was killed in the crash of a Southeast Airlines plane on Holston Mountain in Sullivan County, Tennessee, on January 8, 1959. At the time of the accident, Southeastern Aviation, Inc., d/b/a Southeast Airlines, was a common carrier of passengers for hire, duly certified under the Federal Aviation Act of 1958, 49 U.S.C.A. § 1301 et...

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