UNITED STATES v. WHITCOMB

No. 8676.

314 F.2d 415 (1963)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. Arthur Eugene WHITCOMB, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided February 18, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sherman L. Cohn, Attorney, Dept. of Justice (Joseph D. Guilfoyle, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., Joseph D. Tydings, U. S. Atty., and Alan S. Rosenthal, Atty., Dept. of Justice, on brief), for appellant.

Melvin J. Sykes, Baltimore, Md. (Jack L. Medwedeff, Baltimore, Md., on brief), for Maryland Unsatisfied Claim and Judgment Fund Bd.

Before BRYAN and BELL, Circuit Judges, and BUTZNER, District Judge.


ALBERT V. BRYAN, Circuit Judge.

The Unsatisfied Claim and Judgment Fund Law of Maryland* does not provide indemnity, the District Court has ruled, for a claim held against an uninsured motorist by the United States. This determination was rested solely on an interpretation of the Act: that the Government is not an eligible claimant, because it is not within the statute's definition of a "qualified person". The appeal of the United States...

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