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UNITED STATES v. CANON

No. 13956.

217 F.2d 70 (1954)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. Myrtle CANON, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

November 19, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lloyd H. Burke, U. S. Atty., George A. Blackstone, Charles Elmer Collett, Asst. U. S. Attys., San Francisco, Cal., for appellant.

Ralph Wertheimer, San Francisco, Cal., for appellee.

Before DENMAN, Chief Judge, and HEALY and POPE, Circuit Judges.

DENMAN, Chief Judge.

The United States appeals from a judgment of the District Court awarding Myrtle Canon damages for negligence in an operation on her and operation treatment by Army surgeons in the DeWitt General Hospital near Auburn, California, in which she was serving as a civilian medical secretary.

The case was before us on appeal from a judgment dismissing the complaint. We reversed and remanded for a new trial, 9 Cir., 188 F.2d 444...

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