Columbia Hospital v. United States

WYCHE, District Judge.

Plaintiff operates a hospital in the City of Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina, and brings this action against the United States to recover $8,762.38 for hospital services rendered Halsford V. Sharpe.

The complaint, in substance, alleges that on March 7, 1942, two agents of the Alcoholic Tax Unit of the Treasury Department, accompanied by J. A. Watts, Deputy Sheriff of Lexington County, South Carolina, raided a distillery near Gaston, South Carolina; while running away from the distillery in an attempt to escape arrest Halsford V. Sharpe was shot in the back,…