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IN RE SILVER BRIDGE DISASTER LITIGATION

M. D. L. No. 39.

381 F.Supp. 931 (1974)

In re SILVER BRIDGE DISASTER LITIGATION.

United States District Court, S. D. West Virginia.

July 12, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John D. Holschuh and Alexander, Ebinger, Holschuh, Fisher & McAlister, Columbus, Ohio, and Harry Alan Sherman, Pittsburgh, Pa., for plaintiffs.

Lawrence Klinger, U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for defendant United States.*

FRANK A. KAUFMAN, District Judge.

Late in the afternoon of December 15, 1967 the Silver Bridge, spanning the Ohio River from Point Pleasant, West Virginia to Gallipolis, Ohio, collapsed. Thirty-one automobiles fell into the river; forty-six persons died and others were injured. As a result, fifty-six suits were filed in the United States District Courts for the Districts of West Virginia, Ohio and Maryland. In those fifty-six cases, one or more of the following parties...

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