Meeks

ORDER DENYING MOTION FOR REMAND AND DISAPPROVING STIPULATION FOR SETTLEMENT.

On September 4, 1971, the plane of Alaska Airlines flight No. 1866 crashed near Juneau, Alaska, killing all human beings (111) aboard the plane.

Lowell L. Meeks and Takehiro Endo were two of the decedents. 1

On January 4, 1972, Sylvia A. Meeks, as Administratrix of the estate of Lowell L. Meeks, filed a suit against Alaska Airlines only in the Alaska Superior Court for damages for the death of Lowell L. Meeks, her husband and the father of their then unborn child. That case had Alaska Superior Court No. 72-22.

On January 4, 1972, the same counsel filed a suit for the death of Takehiro Endo occurring on the same flight, *412 wherein Elizabeth Cordle was named as Administratrix of the estate and Alaska Airlines only was named as defendant. That case was No. 72-23 in the Alaska Superior Court. 2

On September 25, 1973, the same counsel for the same plaintiffs, Meeks and Endo, filed a case for the death of the same decedents in one case, No. 73-2788, in the Alaska Superior Court in which he did not join Alaska Airlines, but named four others, viz., (1) Collins Radio, (2) Jeppeson Company, (3) Hughes…