GRAVES v. U.S.

No. 88-5084.

872 F.2d 133 (1989)

Pamela GRAVES, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. The UNITED STATES of America, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided April 6, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David L. Huff, Larry Deener, Landrum, Shouse & Patterson, Lexington, Ky., W.R. Patterson, Jr., argued, King & Patterson, Louisville, Ky., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Louis DeFalaise, U.S. Atty., Marianna J. Read, Asst. U.S. Atty., Office of the U.S. Atty., Lexington, Ky., Stephanie Grogan, Trial Atty., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Torts Branch, Civ. Div., Barbara B. O'Malley, argued, Washington, D.C., Jennifer M. Payton, Asst. Dist. Counsel, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Louisville Dist., Louisville, Ky., for defendant-appellee.

Before MILBURN and BOGGS, Circuit Judges, and CONTIE, Senior Circuit Judge.


BOGGS, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs appeal the district court's judgment denying recovery in a tort action against the United States for injuries allegedly caused by inadequate warnings about a dam on the Kentucky River. We affirm.

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Lock and Dam No. 11, on the Kentucky River, was constructed between 1904 and 1906 by the United States Army Corps of Engineers (the "Corps"). Since that time, it has been continuously...

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