JONES v. UNITED STATES

No. 12595.

228 F.2d 52 (1955)

Clayton M. JONES et al., Appellants, v. The UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided November 23, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Carl L. Shipley, Washington, D. C., with whom Mr. Roy St. Lewis, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellants.

Mr. Lester S. Jayson, Atty., Dept. of Justice, of the bar of the Court of Appeals of New York, pro hac vice, by special leave of Court, with whom Messrs. Warren E. Burger, Asst. Atty. Gen., Dept. of Justice, Leo A. Rover, U. S. Atty., and Paul A. Sweeney, Atty., Dept. of Justice, were on the brief, for appellee. Mr. Lewis Carroll, Asst. U. S. Atty., and Mr. Julian H. Singman, Atty., Dept. of Justice, also entered appearances for appellee.

Before EDGERTON, Chief Judge, and WASHINGTON and BASTIAN, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

Plaintiffs-appellants sued the United States in the United States District Court for the Western District of New York, under the Federal Tort Claims Act. 28 U.S.C. §§ 1346(b), 2674, 2680, 2401 (b) (1952). They charged that the Director of the United States Geological Survey had furnished them with erroneous information, on which they had relied to their detriment in later selling certain stock at less than its true value. Their complaint, in...

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