UNITED STATES v. CARROLL

No. 18328.

369 F.2d 618 (1966)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. William G. CARROLL, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

December 21, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert V. Zener, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for appellant. John W. Douglas, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Morton Hollander, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., and also Richard D. FitzGibbon, Jr., U. S. Atty., St. Louis, Mo., were with him on the brief.

John J. Stewart, St. Louis, Mo., for appellee. Thomas P. Howe, St. Louis, Mo., was with him on the brief.

Before VOGEL, Chief Judge, MATTHES, Circuit Judge, and DUNCAN, Senior District Judge.


DUNCAN, Senior District Judge.

This appeal is from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri awarding damages to the appellee for injuries sustained by him as the result of the crash of a military aircraft in which he was a passenger. The action was brought under the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. §§ 1346(b), 2671 et seq.

At the time of the accident, plaintiff was a naval reservist traveling in uniform...

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