Wilcox v. United States

MURPHY, District Judge.

These are three motions for summary judgment made by the United States in three suits brought against it under the Federal Tort Claims Act. 1 These cases, although each presents a separate and distinct controversy, are considered together in a single opinion because they involve the same defendant making the same motion in suits under the same statute. Two of these cases concern military personnel killed in an automobile and airplane respectively, and raise in common the question of whether their deaths were “incident to the service.” These will be considered together…