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WEBB v. UNITED STATES

No. 71-1258 Summary Calendar.

446 F.2d 760 (1971)

Jeanne Maxine WEBB, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied September 9, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Owen G. Roberts, Jr., William C. Moore, W. Edward Swinson, Columbus, Ga., for plaintiff-appellant.

William J. Schloth, U. S. Atty., D. L. Rampey, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Macon, Ga., for defendant-appellee.

Before WISDOM, COLEMAN and SIMPSON, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

Billie Jean Webb, the seventeen year old daughter of a retired United States Army warrant officer, in a melodramatic attempt to bring about a reconciliation with the man from whom she had recently been divorced, swallowed fifty (50) Colchicine tablets between 3:00 P. M. and 3:30 P.M., on August 20, 1968. Colchicine is a poison sometimes prescribed for the control of inflammation due to gout (the tablets swallowed in this case had been prescribed for Miss...

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