Huffman v. District of Columbia

CAYTON, Associate Judge.

Appellant, an employee of the Federal Government, was on her way home from a dance one Saturday night not long after midnight and when within a block or so of her home was accosted by three soldiers standing in front of a tavern. One of them who admitted he was “pretty intoxicated” offered to walk her home. He claimed that she invited him to her apartment and that they there had sexual relations. About three days later he observed symptoms which he reported to his superiors and which were diagnosed as those of acute gonorrhoea. He claimed to have received from…