Tucker v. United States

DIMOND, District Judge.

Plaintiff was accidentally injured while riding on a speeder owned and operated by the Alaska Railroad, an instrumentality of the United States Government. At the time of the accident, in which plaintiff sustained the injuries complained of, the speeder was being operated by George Oulette then and theretofore employed by the Railroad as a speeder operator on the section of the railroad where the accident occurred. At that time, Oulette was not operating the speeder in performance of his duty for the railroad but he was using it for his own purposes and in contravention…