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June 10, 1952.
June 10, 1952.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Eberhard P. Deutsch, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen. of United States, New Orleans, La., and Massillon M. Heuser, Atty., Department of Justice, Washington, D. C., for the United States. With them on the brief were Atty. Gen. J. Howard McGrath, Deputy Atty. Gen. Peyton Ford, Asst. Attys. Gen. Holmes Baldridge and H. Graham Morison, and U. S. Atty. Brian S. Odem Houston, Tex., Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen. George O'Brien John, Houston, Tex., Paul A. Sweeney, Morton Liftin, Sidney J. Machtinger, and Robert P. Breazeale, Attorneys, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C., and Brigadier General Claude B. Mickelwait, San Francisco, Cal., Lieutenant Colonel Burton K. Philips, St. Louis, Mo., and Captain Ralph L. Kaskell, Jr., Judge Advocate General's Corps, Jamaica, N. Y., United States Army.
Austin Y. Bryan, Jr., of Houston, Tex. argued the cause for the appellees. With him on the brief were Thomas Fletcher, John R. Brown, M. S. McCorquodale, Houston, Tex., Neth L. Leachman, Dallas, Tex., T. E. Mosheim and Vernon Elledge, Houston, Tex.
Before HUTCHESON, Chief Judge, HOLMES, BORAH, RUSSELL, STRUM, and RIVES, Circuit Judges, En Banc.
United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.
RIVES, Circuit Judge.
This litigation arises under the Federal Tort Claims Act.1
For an understanding of the questions presented, we quote the statement of the case as made by the learned district judge:
"These are approximately 273 suits (including the above suit No. C. A. 787, Dalehite, et al. v. United States of America) by approximately 8485 persons or Plaintiffs against Defendant, United States of America, under the...
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