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WEINSTEIN v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 321, 323, 325, 327, 329, 335 of 1961.

200 F.Supp. 448 (1961)

Dorothy WEINSTEIN, Executrix of the Estate of Ralph Weinstein, Deceased v. UNITED STATES of America, Eastern Airlines, Inc., General Motors Corporation and Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. Thelma P. FREEMAN and Provident Tradesmens Bank and Trust Company, Co-Executors of the Estate of Addison B. Freeman, Jr., Deceased v. UNITED STATES of America, Eastern Airlines, Inc., General Motors Corporation and Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. Mary B. GRICE, Executrix of the Estate of David S. Grice, Deceased v. UNITED STATES of America, Eastern Airlines, Inc., General Motors Corporation and Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. Diane BRAFF, Administratrix ad Prosequendum and as General Administratrix of the Estate of Bernard Jay Braff, Deceased v. UNITED STATES of America, Eastern Airlines, Inc., General Motors Corporation and Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. Edna E. LONG and Laura Manney, Administratrices of the Estate of Shirley E. Reitz, Deceased v. UNITED STATES of America, Eastern Airlines, Inc., General Motors Corporation and Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. Attilio E. ABATE, Administrator of the Estate of Frederick N. Abate, Deceased v. UNITED STATES of America, Eastern Airlines, Inc., General Motors Corporation and Lockheed Aircraft Corporation.

United States District Court E. D. Pennsylvania.

December 12, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Milton M. Borowsky, Philadelphia, Pa., for all libellants.

J. Shane Creamer, Asst. U. S. Atty., Philadelphia, Pa., and Max L. Kane, U. S. Department of Justice, Washington, D. C., for United States.

Robert E. Jones, Philadelphia, Pa., for Eastern Airlines.

Owen B. Rhoads, and Arthur E. Newbold, 3rd, Philadelphia, Pa., for General Motors.

Sidney L. Wickenhaver, Philadelphia, Pa., for Lockheed Aircraft.

VAN DUSEN, District Judge.

These admiralty actions are before the court on exceptive allegations filed by respondent, United States of America, and arise out of the crash of an airplane in navigable waters of Boston Harbor one minute after lift-off from Logan International Airport, Boston, on October 4, 1960, allegedly due to the negligence of the agents, servants and employees of the United States of America and resulting in the death of libellants' decedents, who...

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