BLACK v. UNITED STATES

No. 29629.

441 F.2d 741 (1971)

Carol BLACK, Paula Black and Mrs. Jo Swift, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant, Third-Party Plaintiff-Appellant, v. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS, Administrator of the Estate of Allan T. Black, Third-Party Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

April 22, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eldon B. Mahon, U. S. Atty., Fort Worth, Tex., Morton Hollander, Carl Eardley, Deputy Asst. Atty. Gen., Walter H. Fleischer, William D. Ruckelshaus, Asst. Atty Gen., Herbert L. Lyons, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

John B. McClane, Fort Worth, Tex., for third-party defendant-appellee.

Jamail & Gano, Houston, Tex., for appellees Black and Swift, Joseph D. Jamail, John Gano, Houston, Tex., of counsel.

Before GOLDBERG and DYER, Circuit Judges, and GROOMS, District Judge.


GROOMS, District Judge:

This is an appeal from a judgment, 303 F.Supp. 1249, in favor of appellees Carol Black and Paula Black in the amount of $100,000.00 each, and Mrs. Jo Swift in the amount of $50,000.00, against the United States in an action under the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C.A. §§ 1346(b), 2671-2680, for the wrongful death of Dr. Thomas Black and his wife, Jane Black. The Blacks were passengers in a Cessna...

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