OLSEN v. LOCKHEED AIRCRAFT CORP.

Docket No. 28578.

237 Cal.App.2d 737 (1965)

47 Cal. Rptr. 242

DOROTHY OLSEN et al., Defendants, Cross-complainants and Appellants, v. LOCKHEED AIRCRAFT CORPORATION et al., Defendants, Cross-defendants and Respondents.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Two.

October 29, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lind & Schmitz and Allan H. Lind for Defendants, Cross-complainants and Appellants.

Kirtland & Packard, Crider, Tilson & Ruppe and Judith O. Hollinger for Defendants, Cross-defendants and Respondents.


ROTH, P.J.

On April 14, 1960, Elizabeth Wilson filed suit against respondents Braniff Airways, Incorporated (Braniff) and Lockheed Aircraft Corporation (Lockheed) for the wrongful death of her son, Vernon Olsen, who was a passenger aboard a Braniff airplane, built by Lockheed, which crashed in Texas on September 29, 1959. Mrs. Dorothy Olsen, appellant herein, wife of the deceased, was joined as a defendant because she allegedly would not participate in the suit. Mrs...

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