UNITED STATES v. SHARPE

No. 6233.

189 F.2d 239 (1951)

UNITED STATES v. SHARPE et al.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided May 10, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Morton Hollander, Attorney, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C. (Newell A. Clapp, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., Ben Scott Whaley, U. S. Atty., Russell D. Miller, Asst. U. S. Atty., Charleston, S. C. and Paul A. Sweeney, Attorney, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C., on brief), for appellant.

Henry H. Edens, Columbia, S. C. (Henry Hammer, Columbia, S. C., and Lybrand & Simons, Aiken, S. C., on brief), for appellees.

Before PARKER, Chief Judge and SOPER and DOBIE, Circuit Judges.


PARKER, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal by the United States from a judgment under the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C.A. § 1346(b). The plaintiffs were injured in the collision between an automobile in which they were riding and an automobile owned and driven by Sergeant Ernest Thompson. The trial judge held the United States liable under the Tort Claims Act for the negligence of Sergeant Thompson and the correctness...

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