Persful v. United States

This case comes up for consideration on the defendant’s demurrer to the petition. The defendant maintains that the petition does not state a cause of action against the United States within the jurisdiction of the Court.

According to the petition the suit is for damages for a permanent and serious injury to plaintiff’s left arm, which had its inception in an accidental amputation of four fingers. He was at the time of the accident undergoing sentence of imprisonment at Alcatraz, California, and being ordered to sharpen some stakes for the purpose of building a form for a concrete border to a…