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WEINSTEIN v. EASTERN AIRLINES, INC.

Nos. 321, 323, 325, 327, 329, 335, 375 of 1961.

203 F.Supp. 430 (1962)

Dorothy WEINSTEIN, Executrix of the Estate of Ralph Weinstein, Deceased, v. 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. EASTERN AIRLINES, INC., General Motors Corporation and Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. Mary B. GRICE, Executrix of the Estate of David S. Grice, Deceased, v. EASTERN AIRLINES, INC., General Motors Corporations and Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. Diane BRAFF, Administratrix ad Prosequendum and as General Administratrix of the Estate of Bernard Jay Braff, Deceased, v. 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. EASTERN AIRLINES, INC., General Motors Corporation and Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. Attilio E. ABATE, Administrator of the Estate of Frederick N. Abate, Deceased, v. EASTERN AIRLINES, INC., General Motors Corporation and Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. Joseph THOMPSON, Jr., Administrator of the Estate of Letha Mae Thompson, Deceased, v. EASTERN AIRLINES, INC., General Motors Corporation and Lockheed Aircraft Corporation.

United States District Court E. D. Pennsylvania.

March 19, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

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

Owen B. Rhoads and George J. Miller, Philadelphia, Pa., for General Motors.

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

VAN DUSEN, District Judge.

On October 4, 1960, a Lockheed Electra land-based airplane crashed in the harbor of Boston, Massachusetts shortly after its take-off from Logan International Airport, Boston, Mass., on a scheduled flight to the International Airport at Philadelphia, Pa. Passengers and crew members were killed and injured as a result of the crash.

The libels filed in these seven cases all allege the liability of Eastern Airlines, Inc. on two broad...

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