Ball v. United States

ROCHE, District Judge.

Plaintiff seeks to recover damages alleged to have been caused by the negligence of defendant’s employee while acting in the scope of his employment.

At approximately 8:40 A.M. on July 17, 1958, in clear weather and heavy traffic, plaintiff’s vehicle, southbound in the outer lane of traffic on Bayshore Highway, collided with a half-ton truck belonging to defendant and driven by Private Kazuo R. Kaneshiro in the course of his duties as an enlisted member of the United States Army. At the moment of impact, defendant’s vehicle was completing a left turn from the northbound…