McDONALD v. UNITED STATES

C.A. 4-697.

284 F.Supp. 978 (1968)

Viola Lee McDONALD v. UNITED STATES of America.

United States District Court N. D. Texas, Fort Worth Division.

Order February 26, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

T. Gary Cole, Jr., Robert Randolph, Fort Worth, Tex., for plaintiff.

Wm. L. Johnson, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Fort Worth, Tex., for defendant.


OPINION

BREWSTER, District Judge.

E. L. McDonald, a floor sander, sustained serious burns over a large part of his body in a flash fire and explosion which occurred as he was starting to refinish the floors in a vacant apartment of a Wherry housing project, owned, operated and maintained by the government. He died twelve days later as a result of the burns. Natural gas had escaped into the apartment through an uncapped, unplugged flexible copper tube which...

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