ORVIS v. BRICKMAN

No. 10987.

196 F.2d 762 (1952)

ORVIS v. BRICKMAN et al.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided March 6, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benjamin H. Dorsey and Irving G. McCann, Washington, D. C., with whom Smith W. Brookhart, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellant.

Chester H. Gray, Principal Asst. Corporation Counsel for the District of Columbia, Washington, D. C., with whom Vernon E. West, Corporation Counsel, Oliver Gasch, Asst. Corporation Counsel, and John F. Doyle, Asst. Corporation Counsel, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellees Jacob Brickman, Dr. Alvin R. Sweeney, and Dr. Joseph L. Gilbert. H. Mason Welch, Washington, D. C., was on the brief for appellees Dr. Joseph L. Gilbert and Dr. Alvin R. Sweeney.

Joseph M. Howard, Asst. U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., with whom George Morris Fay, U. S. Atty. at the time the brief was filed, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellees Dr. Zigmond H. Lebensohn, Dr. Robert T. Morse, and Thomas Gillespie Walsh. Charles M. Irelan, U. S. Atty. at the time of argument, Washington, D. C., also entered an appearance for appellees Dr. Zigmond H. Lebensohn, Dr. Robert T. Morse, and Thomas Gillespie Walsh.

Before PRETTYMAN, PROCTOR and BAZELON, Circuit Judges.


PRETTYMAN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment and two orders in a civil action for false imprisonment.

Early on the morning of December 29, 1947, appellant cut her right wrist with a razor blade. According to her statements she was attempting to pare a callus on her foot. The blood came freely and in spurts, indicating that an artery had been cut. Some forty or fifty minutes later she called a superior at her office and told him that she would...

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