UNITED STATES v. ACORD

No. 4694.

209 F.2d 709 (1954)

UNITED STATES v. ACORD et al.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied February 8, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herman S. Greitzer (Warren E. Burger, Asst. Atty. Gen., Robert E. Shelton, U. S. Atty., Harry G. Foreman, Asst. U. S. Atty., Oklahoma City, Okl., and Paul A. Sweeney and John G. Laughlin, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., on the brief), for the United States.

Nell Rhodes Fisher and Gus Rinehart, Oklahoma City, Okl. (J. I. Gibson and Butler, Rinehart & Morrison, Oklahoma City, Okl., on the brief), for appellees.

Before PHILLIPS, Chief Judge, and BRATTON and PICKETT, Circuit Judges.


PHILLIPS, Chief Judge.

Glenn Acord was injured by a mail pouch thrown by a mail clerk, who was an employee of the United States, from a moving train owned and operated by the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Company.1

Acord brought an action against the Railroad Company in the Western District of Oklahoma to recover the damages resulting from such injuries. The Railroad Company...

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