UNITED STATES v. HASKIN

No. 9477.

395 F.2d 503 (1968)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. Shirley HASKIN, Administratrix of the Estate of Charles D. Haskin, Deceased, and Transco Contracting Company, Inc., a corporation, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied June 26, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Kanter, Attorney, Dept. of Justice (Carl Eardley, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., B. Andrew Potter, U. S. Atty., and Morton Hollander, Attorney, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., on the brief), for appellant.

Kenneth N. McKinney, Oklahoma City, Okl., for appellee Shirley Haskin.

Robert D. Looney, Oklahoma City, Okl., for appellee Transco Contracting Co., Inc.

Before WOODBURY, LEWIS and HICKEY, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing Denied June 26, 1968, en banc.

HICKEY, Circuit Judge.

The government appeals from a judgment entered by the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma in an action brought under the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. §§ 1346(b), 2671 et seq. Plaintiff-appellee, Haskin, was awarded $49,300 on a wrongful death claim which was based on Colorado's wrongful death statute, Colo.R.S. § 41-1-2 (1963), and $4,043.07 for...

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