HAYES v. UNITED STATES

No. 53, Docket 30309.

367 F.2d 340 (1966)

Helen C. HAYES, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided October 18, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry L. Nair, Hartford, Conn. (Gordon, Muir & Fitzgerald, George Muir, Noble K. Pierce, Hartford, Conn., on the brief), for appellant.

John F. Mulcahy, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty. (Jon O. Newman, U. S. Atty., for the District of Connecticut, on the brief), for appellee.

Before SMITH, HAYS and FEINBERG, Circuit Judges.


FEINBERG, Circuit Judge:

In August 1961, plaintiff-appellant fell on the steps of a United States Post Office in Middletown, Connecticut, and thereafter brought suit under the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2674 (1964). In October 1965, in a non-jury trial before Judge T. Emmet Clarie in the District of Connecticut, appellant recovered damages of $23,222.92. Appellant's attack on appeal is confined to the amount of the award.

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