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KOSSICK v. UNITED STATES

No. 315, Docket 28592.

330 F.2d 933 (1964)

John M. KOSSICK, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided April 15, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jacob Rassner, New York City, for plaintiff-appellant.

Terence N. Doyle, Washington, D. C. (John W. Douglas, Asst. Atty. Gen., Robert M. Morgenthau, U. S. Atty., Sherman L. Cohn, Atty. Dept. of Justice), for defendant-appellee.

Before LUMBARD, Chief Judge, and WATERMAN and FRIENDLY, Circuit Judges.

FRIENDLY, Circuit Judge:

This case, like Kossick v. United Fruit Co., 275 F.2d 500 (2 Cir. 1960), rev'd 365 U.S. 731, 81 S.Ct. 886, 6 L.Ed.2d 56 (1961), concerns a serious rectal injury inflicted upon Kossick, a seaman, in August 1950, in the United States Public Health Service Hospital at Staten Island, N. Y., by the administration of a post-operative enema containing a grossly excessive dosage of...

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