LACEY v. UNITED STATES

Civil Actions Nos. 50-464, 50-370 to 50-373.

98 F.Supp. 219 (1951)

LACEY v. UNITED STATES. DAVIS v. VAN ARSDALE. KEPPLE v. VAN ARSDALE (three cases).

United States District Court, D. Massachusetts.

June 8, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph P. Rooney, Paul V. Power and Gaston Snow Rice & Boyd, all of Boston, Mass., for Lawrence Lacey and John C. Van Arsdale.

George F. Garrity, U. S. Atty., and Edward O. Gourdin, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Boston, Mass., for the United States.

James L. Vallely, Langan, Lawless & Dempsey, Robert B. Irvin, all of Boston, Mass., for Edward Davis.

John F. Cremens, Boston, Mass., for third party defendant Avco Mfg. Co.

Andrew B. Goodspeed and Willard, Petersen, Goodspeed & Cameron, all of Boston, Mass., for Piper Aircraft Corporation.

James M. Langan, Langan, Lawless & Dempsey, Boston, Mass., for Harold Kepple.


SWEENEY, Chief Judge.

In Civil Action No. 50-464, the administrator of the estate of a pilot who lost his life in Massachusetts Bay after his plane had fallen into the water seeks to recover against the United States under the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C.A. § 1346, by reason of the allegedly negligent failure of the Coast Guard to rescue his decedent. In the other actions the Court had issued an order permitting...

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