FIRST NAT. BK. IN ALBUQUERQUE v. UNITED STATES

No. 75-1301.

552 F.2d 370 (1977)

FIRST NATIONAL BANK IN ALBUQUERQUE, as guardian for and on behalf of Dorothy Jean Huckleby, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

March 24, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William G. Gilstrap, Albuquerque, N. M. (Smith, Ransom & Gilstrap, Albuquerque, N. M., on brief), for plaintiffs-appellants.

William R. Hughes, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Albuquerque, N. M. (Victor R. Ortega, U. S. Atty., Albuquerque, N. M., on brief), for defendant-appellee.

Before HOLLOWAY, BARRETT and DOYLE, Circuit Judges.


HOLLOWAY, Circuit Judge.

This tragic case arose from the mercury poisoning of four children of a New Mexico family. The source of the poison was meat from a hog which had been fed seed treated with a mercury fungicide. The plaintiffs appeal from a judgment dismissing their suit brought under the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C.A. §§ 1346(b), 2671 et seq., for alleged negligence on the part of Government employees in the registration for interstate...

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