GLASSCOCK v. UNITED STATES

No. 8888.

323 F.2d 589 (1963)

Richard L. GLASSCOCK, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided September 23, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martin E. Gerel, Washington, D. C. (Lee C. Ashcraft and Joseph H. Koonz, Jr., Washington, D. C., on brief), for appellant.

MacDougal Rice, Asst. U. S. Atty. (C. V. Spratley, Jr., U. S. Atty., on brief), for appellee.

Before BOREMAN and J. SPENCER BELL, Circuit Judges, and PREYER, District Judge.


PER CURIAM.

This is an appeal by Richard L. Glasscock, the plaintiff, from a judgment for the defendant in his action under the Federal Tort Claims Act. The District Court found no primary negligence on the part of the defendant and found alternatively that plaintiff was barred by his own negligence.

On October 16, 1959, the plaintiff was seriously burned while engaged as a lineman for the Seal Electric Company on defendant's property at Fort Belvoir, Virginia...

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