HAMBLETON v. UNITED STATES

No. 1984.

87 F.Supp. 994 (1949)

HAMBLETON et ux. v. UNITED STATES.

United States District Court W. D. Washington, N. D.

November 17, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stanley C. Soderland, and George R. West, Seattle, Washington, for plaintiffs.

J. Charles Dennis, U. S. Atty., and Vaughn Evans, Asst. U. S. Atty., Seattle, Washington, for defendant.


BOWEN, Chief Judge.

Here the tort of Sergeant Anderson was not in exercising his discretion to interrogate or not to interrogate plaintiff, Mrs. Hambleton, but such tort was in the negligent and distressing manner in which Sergeant Anderson conducted the interrogation of Mrs. Hambleton.

The principle, in my opinion, is like that which applies to the malpractice of a surgeon, who may in his honest discretion operate...

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