REWIS v. UNITED STATES

No. 23301.

369 F.2d 595 (1966)

Mrs. Annie Laurie REWIS, as Temporary Administratrix of the Estate of Joann Rewis, deceased, and Mrs. Annie Laurie Rewis and Joseph S. Rewis, Individually, Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

December 5, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph B. Bergen, Savannah, Ga., for appellants.

Morton Hollander, J. F. Bishop, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., John W. Douglas, Asst. Atty. Gen., Donald H. Fraser, U. S. Atty., John C. Eldridge, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before TUTTLE, Chief Judge, BROWN and GODBOLD, Circuit Judges.


TUTTLE, Chief Judge:

This is an appeal from a judgment of the district court in favor of the United States in a tort claim action brought by the appellants, Sergeant and Mrs. Joseph S. Rewis. The action was brought upon the allegations of malpractice by the medical officer on duty at an Air Force base hospital in New Mexico, whose examination of the fifteen month old child of the appellants did not disclose aspirin poisoning, which did, in fact, twenty hours later...

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