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SMITH v. UNITED STATES

No. 24702.

394 F.2d 482 (1968)

Debra Ann SMITH et al., Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

April 24, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jacob D. Guice, Rushing & Guice, Biloxi, Miss., for appellants.

Robert E. Hauberg, U. S. Atty., Jackson, Miss., Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Morton Hollander, Robert C. McDiarmid, Robert M. Heier, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before GEWIN and COLEMAN, Circuit Judges, and HUGHES, District Judge.

PER CURIAM:

This appeal is from a suit brought by appellants below for wrongful death under the Federal Tort Claims Act. Appellants are the husband and children of the decedent, who died in Keesler Air Force Base Hospital after a successful gall bladder operation, from the effects of a drug, Compazine, which was administered 10 hours after the operation to control nausea.

Appellants contend that the physicians treating...

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