Lundy v. United States

DE VANE, District Judge.

This is a suit brought under the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C.A. § 921 et seq., in which the plaintiff seeks to recover damages for the death of her husband and for injury to herself sustained in an automobile accident.

The complaint alleges that on April 25, 1945, at about 6:30 p.m. o’clock, plaintiff was riding as a passenger in a motor vehicle which was being operated by her husband, E. H. Lundy, in an easterly direction of U. S. Highway No. 90 in Escambia County, Florida, just east of the intersection of said highway with the Nine Mile Road. At the time and…