COE v. UNITED STATES

Civ. No. 77-900.

502 F.Supp. 881 (1980)

Theron E. COE, Thomas M. Dimmick, John T. Dimmick, Calvin N. Souther, West Coast Steamship Company, an Oregon corporation, Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant.

United States District Court, D. Oregon.

August 19, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. A. Jerry North, Souther, Spaulding, Kinsey, Williamson & Schwabe, Portland, Or., for plaintiffs.

Sidney I. Lezak, U. S. Atty., District of Oregon, Jonathan M. Hoffman, Asst. U. S. Atty., Portland, Or., for defendant.


MEMORANDUM DECISION

EDWARD C. REED, Jr., District Judge, Sitting by Designation.

Theron E. "Buck" Coe, and others, have sued the United States of America under the Federal Tort Claims Act 28 U.S.C. §§ 1346(b) and 2671, et seq., for damages arising on account of a fire which began on a parcel of federal land administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and located adjacent to the Deschutes River in Oregon. Plaintiffs allege that both the...

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