UNITED STATES v. MARSHALL

No. 6888.

391 F.2d 880 (1968)

UNITED STATES of America, Defendant, Appellant, v. Florence MARSHALL, Plaintiff, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals First Circuit.

March 27, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John C. Eldridge, Washington, D. C., Attorney with whom Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Carl Eardley, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., Francisco A. Gil, Jr., U. S. Atty., and Alan S. Rosenthal and Robert C. McDiarmid, Washington, D. C., Attys., Dept. of Justice, were on brief, for appellant.

Harvey B. Nachman, San Juan, P. R., with whom Nachman, Feldstein, Laffitte & Smith, San Juan, P. R., was on brief, for appellee.

Before ALDRICH, Chief Judge, McENTEE and COFFIN, Circuit Judges.


McENTEE, Circuit Judge.

Defendant, United States of America, appeals from a judgment in the sum of $45,500 entered against it by the district court under the Federal Torts Claims Act.1

The plaintiff, Florence Marshall, was playing golf at Ramey Air Force Base, Puerto Rico, on July 7, 1963, in the company of Victor House and at the invitation of one Captain Flood, an officer at the base. She had played the Ramey course some six...

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