Rewis v. United States

TUTTLE, Chief Judge:

This is an appeal from a judgment of the district court in favor of the United States in a tort claim action brought by the appellants, Sergeant and Mrs. Joseph S. Rewis. The action was brought upon the allegations of malpractice by the medical officer on duty at an Air Force base hospital in New Mexico, whose examination of the fifteen month old child of the appellants did not disclose aspirin poisoning, which did, in fact, twenty hours later, cause the death of the child.

On this appeal from the findings of fact and conclusions of law by the trial court, the testimony…