PEREZ v. U.S.

No. 86-1487. Summary Calendar.

830 F.2d 54 (1987)

Samuel PEREZ, Etc., Plaintiff-Appellant, Martha Beatriz Sanchez Perez, Appellant, v. The UNITED STATES of America, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

October 21, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mike Milligan, El Paso, Tex., for Martha Beatriz Sanchez Perez & Samuel Perez.

Mark M. Greenberg, Asst. U.S. Atty., Helen M. Eversberg, U.S. Atty., El Paso, Tex., for defendant-appellee.

Before GEE, RUBIN, and HILL, Circuit Judges.


ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:

A husband and wife injured in a motor vehicle accident appeal a district court judgment rendered pursuant to the Federal Tort Claims Act awarding them damages. They contend that the award should be increased because the district court erred in imputing the husband's negligence to his wife, in identifying the wife's past medical expenses as community property, in finding the husband 48 percent responsible for the accident, in awarding...

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