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UNITED STATES v. HOLCOMBE

No. 8035.

277 F.2d 143 (1960)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. Richard A. HOLCOMBE, Jr., Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided April 18, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark R. Joelson, Atty., Dept. of Justice (George Cochran Doub, Asst. Atty. Gen., Joseph S. Bambacus, U. S. Atty., Richmond, Va., and Morton Hollander, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., on the brief), for appellant.

Howard I. Legum, Norfolk, Va. (Louis B. Fine, Norfolk, Va., on the brief), for appellee.

Before SOBELOFF, Chief Judge, and SOPER and HAYNSWORTH, Circuit Judges.

SOBELOFF, Chief Judge.

The question to be decided is whether an Officers' Mess at a naval base is a "federal agency" within the meaning of the Tort Claims Act, so as to make the United States liable for the negligence of an employee of the mess.

The plaintiff, Richard A. Holcombe, Jr., was civilian manager of the Commissioned Officers' Mess at the United States Naval Air Station, Patuxent River, Maryland. On April 12, 1956, he instructed Loretta Roller, also...

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