Legal Opinion
Whitlock v. United States
District Court, E.D. Virginia
Decided February 12, 1969No. Civ. A. No. 5565-RPublished
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
STERLING HUTCHESON, District Judge.
Plaintiff seeks to recover damages for personal injuries sustained as a result of a collision between a railroad box car and a truck trailer at the Cheatham Annex Naval Supply Center (Norfolk), Williamsburg, Virginia, (a government installation) on May 17, 1967.
Jurisdiction is founded upon the Federal Tort Claims Act (28 U.S.C. Sections 2671-2680 and Section 1346 [b]). Two other defendants to the action as filed, the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company, were dismissed for lack of jurisdiction…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Waldron v. Director General of RailroadsCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1920
- Veale v. Norfolk and Western Railway CompanySupreme Court of Virginia · 1965
- Risque's Administrator v. Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co.Supreme Court of Virginia · 1905
- Weeks v. PollardCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1941