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HOSKINS v. EASTERN AIR LINES, INC.

Nos. 65-A-903, 65-A-1163.

265 F.Supp. 842 (1967)

Emma Louise HOSKINS, as Executrix of the Estate of Richard S. Hoskins, deceased, Libelant, v. EASTERN AIR LINES, INC., Pan American World Airways, Inc. and United States of America, Respondents. Arvilla S. COOK, as Administratrix of the goods, chattels and credits of Philip C. Cook, deceased, Libelant, v. EASTERN AIR LINES, INC., Pan American World Airways, Inc. and United States of America, Respondents.

United States District Court E. D. New York.

March 29, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Willkie, Farr, Gallagher, Walton, & FitzGibbon, New York City, for libelants, Emma Louise Hoskins and Arvilla S. Cook by Louis A. Craco and Daniel W. Hildebrand, New York City, of counsel.

Haight, Gardner, Poor & Havens, New York City, for respondent, Pan American World Airways, by Walter Rutherford, New York City, of counsel.

Bigham, Englar, Jones & Houston, New York City, for respondent, Eastern Air Lines, by Thomas McDonough, New York City, of counsel.

Joseph P. Hoey, U. S. Atty., by Louis Greco, Atty. in charge of Admiralty Office, Dept. of Justice, New York City, by John J. Murray, New York City, of counsel, for the United States.

RAYFIEL, District Judge.

These actions were brought under the Death on the High Seas Act (46 U.S. Code, Section 761) by the personal representatives of the above-named decedents, whose death is claimed to have been caused by the wrongful acts of the respondents. The libels allege that on February 8, 1965 Hoskins and Cook, while passengers on an airliner of the respondent, Eastern Air Lines, Inc., (Eastern) known as Flight 663, died when the said plane crashed into...

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