GOULD v. U.S.

No. 98-1746.

160 F.3d 1194 (1998)

C. Russell GOULD, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee. William R. ZANETELLO, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided November 18, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael B. White, Kansas City, MO, argued, for Appellants.

James C. Bohling, Kansas City, MO, argued (Thomas Larson, on the brief), for Appellee.

Before BOWMAN, Chief Judge, and WOLLMAN and MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD, Circuit Judges.


MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.

William Zanetello and Russell Gould, strangers to each other at the time, were injured on different days while sledding down the back of a dam built, operated, and owned by the Army Corps of Engineers (the Corps) at Longview Lake in Jackson County, Missouri. Each of them was seriously hurt when his sled crashed after having been propelled into the air upon contact with a sloped terrace that was three or four feet high. Each sued...

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