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LASATER v. HERCULES POWDER CO.

No. 10656.

171 F.2d 263 (1948)

LASATER et al. v. HERCULES POWDER CO.

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

December 6, 1948.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joe N. Hunter, of Chattanooga, Tenn. (Harry J. Schaeffer, E. B. Baker and Joe N. Hunter, all of Chattanooga, Tenn., on the brief), for appellants.

Philip Whitaker, of Chattanooga, Tenn. (Whitaker, Hall & Haynes, of Chattanooga, Tenn., and J. R. L. Johnson, Jr. and Robert A. Fulwiler, Jr., both of Wilmington, Del., on the brief), for appellee.

Before HICKS, Chief Judge, and ALLEN and McALLISTER, Circuit Judges.

McALLISTER, Circuit Judge.

Appellants, during the recent war, were employees of the Hercules Powder Company, which operated an ordnance plant for the federal government on a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract. The plant was located in the country outside Chattanooga, Tennessee, remote from settled communities. To guard against sabotage, and fires and damage that might be caused by vagrants, a chainlike fence was built about the entire plant, which occupied approximately...

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