WHITE v. UNITED STATES

No. 3559.

244 F.Supp. 127 (1965)

Luther W. WHITE, III, Administrator, c.t.a. of the Estate of Donald E. Meeks, Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant.

United States District Court E. D. Virginia, Norfolk Division.

July 23, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George H. Gray, Norfolk, Va., for plaintiff.

R. Granville Patrick, Sp. Asst. U. S. Atty., Richmond, Va., for defendant.


WALTER E. HOFFMAN, Chief Judge.

In an action under the Federal Tort Claims Act plaintiff seeks damages for the wrongful death of Donald E. Meeks, a mentally incompetent person under treatment at the Veterans Administration Hospital, Salem, Virginia, who, on the afternoon of October 10, 1959, left the hospital grounds and stood in front of a train resulting in his death.

The case has previously been before the United...

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