UNITED STATES v. COOK ELECTRIC COMPANY

Civ. A. No. 2334.

217 F.Supp. 647 (1963)

UNITED STATES of America for the Use and Benefit of R. C. HUGHES ELECTRIC CO., Inc., and Cable Construction Company, corporations, Plaintiff, v. COOK ELECTRIC COMPANY, a corporation and United Pacific Insurance Company, a corporation, Defendants. COOK ELECTRIC COMPANY, a corporation, Third-Party Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES of America, Third-Party Defendant.

United States District Court E. D. Washington, N. D.

April 29, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert D. Campbell and Brown & Thayer, Spokane, Wash., for R. C. Hughes & Co. and Cable Const. Co.

MacGillivray, Jones, Clarke & Schiffner, Spokane, Wash., Defrees, Fiske, Thomson & Simmons, Chicago, Ill., for Cook Electric Co. and United Pacific Ins. Co.

Frank R. Freeman, U. S. Atty., Spokane, Wash., for the United States.


POWELL, Chief Judge.

This matter came on for hearing before the Court on the motion of the United States of America to dismiss the third-party complaint filed against it by the defendant and third-party plaintiff, Cook Electric Company. The matter was submitted on the briefs of the parties. The briefs and the records and files in this case have been considered.

The motion is on the ground that the United States of America has not waived its sovereign immunity...

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