United States v. Waldean Horsfall

BREITENSTEIN, Circuit Judge.

Horsfall sued under the Federal Tort Claims Act and recovered an $85,440.06 judgment for a broken leg. The United States does not contest liability. The sole point urged for reversal is that the findings as to permanent disability lack the specificity required by Rule 52(a), F.R.Civ.P., 28 U.S.C.A.

Horsfall received a serious fracture of the right leg which totally incapacitated him up to the time of the trial and which required thereafter one or more surgical operations with attendant hospitalization and rehabilitation. The medical testimony was that final…