Legal Opinion
Jack Steele v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 12, 1979No. 78-1985PublishedCited by 60 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff, Jack Steele, appeals from the district court’s dismissal of his complaint against the United States. The facts as revealed in the record and the briefs of the parties are as follows: According to the plaintiff’s complaint, he was injured on August 15,1975, while installing runway lights and signs on an inactive runway at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois. While connecting wires to a transformer box, he sustained an electrical shock because the current to the box was on. Unknown to the plaintiff, an agency of the United States,…
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