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GRIFFITH v. UNITED AIR LINES, INC.

416 Pa. 1 (1964)

Griffith, Appellant, v. United Air Lines, Inc.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

October 14, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lee S. Kreindler, of the New York Bar, with him Alvin S. Ackerman, and Jerrold V. Moss, for appellant.

Owen B. Rhoads, with him George J. Miller and Arthur W. Leibold, Jr., for appellee.

Seymour I. Toll, with him Charles A. Lord, T.E. Byrne, Jr., John R. McConnell, Ralph Earle, II, Abraham E. Freedman, Milton M. Borowsky, Morris S. Finkel, and Richter, Lord, Toll & Cavanaugh, and Krusen, Evans and Byrne, and Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, and Freedman, Landy and Lorry, for amici curiae.

J. Grant McCabe, III, and Rawle & Henderson, for amicus curiae.

Before BELL, C.J., JONES, COHEN, EAGEN, O'BRIEN and ROBERTS, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE ROBERTS, October 14, 1964:

George H. Hambrecht, a Pennsylvania domiciliary, purchased a ticket from United Airlines, Inc. [United] in Philadelphia for a flight from Philadelphia to Phoenix, Arizona, and return. On July 11, 1961, he boarded a United DC-8 bound for Phoenix. In the course of landing at Denver, Colorado, a scheduled stop, the plane crashed, causing Mr. Hambrecht's immediate death.

United is a Delaware corporation with its...

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