Legal Opinion
Hunt v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 18, 1970No. Nos. 24357, 24382PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CHAMBERS, Circuit Judge:
The Alaska Railroad is a small part of the United States Government.
On the morning of January 1, 1966, Leona Hunt drove the Hunt family car along a well-traveled state highway into the second engine unit of an Alaska Railroad train at a crossing between Palmer and Anchorage, Alaska. Mrs. Phyllis McCrary and two McCrary children were guest passengers in the Hunt car. All were injured and Cindy Marie McCrary, a daughter, died as a consequence of the injuries.
Recoveries have been had against the government under the Federal Tort Claims Act for the three survivors and for…
2Cited by4 opinions
- Twin City Fire Insurance Co., Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant v. Philadelphia Life Insurance Co., and Rask & Associates, Defendants-Appellants-Cross-Appellees. Rask & Associates, Third-Party v. John L. Griffith, Third-PartyCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1986
- Twin City Fire Insurance v. Philadelphia Life InsuranceCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1986
- Ernestine Reid and Walter Reid v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1971
- Ted Hunt and Leona Hunt, Husband and Wife, and v. United States of America, Gordon W. McCrary Jr., and Phyllis A. McCrary as Co-Administrator/administratrix and Personal Representatives of Cindy Marie McCrary Deceased, as Father and Mother and Next Friends of Teresa Irene McCrary a Minor Child, and Also Individually, and v. United States of America, United States of America v. State of AlaskaCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1971