RHODES v. UNITED STATES

No. 76-2171.

574 F.2d 1179 (1978)

Jeanette RHODES, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. The UNITED STATES of America and Clifford Alexander, Secretary of Army, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

June 12, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Jackson B. Smith, Jr., U. S. Atty., Edmund A. Booth, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Augusta, Ga., William Kanter, John Cordes, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Civ. Div., App. Section, Rex E. Lee, Asst. Atty. Gen., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for defendants-appellants.

Percy J. Blount, Augusta, Ga., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before WISDOM, TJOFLAT and VANCE, Circuit Judges.


VANCE, Circuit Judge.

On June 12, 1973 at about 7:30 P.M., the plaintiff, Mrs. Jeanette Rhodes, was riding as a passenger in an automobile travelling in a southerly direction on U.S. Highway 25 in Richmond County, Georgia. Mrs. Rhodes claims that Mr. John Wendell Shealy drove an oncoming automobile across the highway center line and collided with the car in which she was riding. She apparently suffered very severe injury. Mr. Shealy was killed.

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