Brewer v. United States

GOODMAN, District Judge.

The United States has moved to dismiss plaintiff’s amended complaint, wherein recovery of damages is sought under the “Federal Tort Claims Act”, 28 U.S.C.A. § 921 ct seq., for injuries alleged to have been suffered by plaintiff, an American merchant seaman, due to the negligent operation of an army jeep driven by a solider of the United States Army in Okinawa in June of 1947. At the time alleged, Okinawa, an island of the Ryukyu group, over which Japan was acknowledged to be the sovereign, was under occupation by American military forces, pursuant to the terms of the…