JENNINGS v. UNITED STATES

No. 10635.

374 F.2d 983 (1967)

Anna JENNINGS, Administratrix of the Estate of Stewart Earl Jennings, deceased, to her own use and to the use of Government Employees Insurance Company, Subrogee, and Government Employees Insurance Company, a body corporate, Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided March 2, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frederick J. Green, Jr., Baltimore, Md. (Edward C. Bell, Hyattsville, Md., and Lord, Whip, Coughlan & Green, Baltimore, Md., on brief), for appellants.

John W. Bassett, Atty., Dept. of Justice (John W. Douglas, Asst. Atty. Gen., David L. Rose and Edward Berlin, Attys., Dept. of Justice, and Thomas J. Kenney, U. S. Atty., on brief), for appellee.

Before SOBELOFF, BOREMAN and J. SPENCER BELL, Circuit Judges.


SOBELOFF, Circuit Judge:

For the third time we have occasion to consider legal questions arising out of a collision between automobiles in Prince George's County, Maryland, on the Suitland Parkway, a highway maintained by the United States. The earlier appeals concerned the issue of negligence, while the present appeal poses the purely legal question of the obligation of the United States as indemnitor to reimburse an insurer for monies paid in settlement of personal...

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