BACON v. UNITED STATES

No. 17236.

321 F.2d 880 (1963)

Florence E. BACON and Francis G. Bacon, Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

August 21, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ted M. Henson, Jr., Poplar Bluff, Mo., for appellants.

Sherman L. Cohn, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for appellee. John W. Douglas, Asst. Atty. Gen., Mark R. Joelson, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., and Richard D. FitzGibbon, Jr., U. S. Atty., St. Louis, Mo., with him on the brief.

Before VAN OOSTERHOUT and BLACKMUN, Circuit Judges, and YOUNG, District Judge.


YOUNG, District Judge.

On September 1, 1960, Frank J. Krouse, an employee of the United States, while driving one of its cars, struck an automobile driven by appellant Florence E. Bacon, wife of appellant Francis G. Bacon. On May 15, 1961, appellant Florence Bacon brought an action for damages against Krouse in the Circuit Court of Butler County, Missouri, seeking $10,000.00 for personal injuries sustained in the collision...

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