PETERSON v. UNITED STATES

No. 20238.

367 F.2d 271 (1966)

Donald J. PETERSON and Louise J. Peterson, Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied December 13, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eugene R. Belland, Fairbanks, Alaska, for appellants.

John W. Douglas, Asst. Atty. Gen., Morton Hollander, Kathryn H. Baldwin, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Richard L. McVeigh, U. S. Atty., Anchorage, Alaska, for appellee.

Before JERTBERG, BROWNING and ELY, Circuit Judges.


JERTBERG, Circuit Judge.

Appellants seek a judgment against the United States under the provisions of the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1346(b) and 28 U.S.C. § 2671 et seq., to recover money damages for injury and loss of property allegedly caused by negligence when, without warning of any kind to appellants, a group of engineers attached to the Ladd Air Force Base at Fairbanks, Alaska, caused to be dynamited an ice jam which had accumulated from...

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