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HORTON v. UNITED STATES

No. 79-1124.

622 F.2d 80 (1980)

Betty A. HORTON, Appellee, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. CITY OF COLUMBIA, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided May 22, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Danny C. Crowe, Columbia, S. C. (Roy D. Bates, Columbia, S. C., on brief), for appellant.

Wistar D. Stuckey, Asst. U. S. Atty., Columbia, S. C. (Thomas E. Lydon, Jr., U. S. Atty., Columbia, S. C., on brief), for appellee United States of America.

Mitchell Willoughby, Columbia, S. C. (Stanley G. Freeman, Columbia, S. C., on brief), for appellee Betty A. Horton.

Before RUSSELL and WIDENER, Circuit Judges, and ROBERT J. STAKER, United States District Judge for the Southern District of West Virginia, sitting by designation.

PER CURIAM:

On August 15, 1974 the plaintiff/appellee Betty A. Horton sustained substantial injuries when she fell on the front steps of a United States Postal Service facility in Columbia, South Carolina. This facility was leased by the United States from the City of Columbia pursuant to a lease entered into on May 10, 1967.1 The district court awarded judgment to Mrs. Horton against the United States in the amount of $46,224. The district...

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