Parrott v. United States

TOLIN, District Judge.

This action to recover damages under the Tort Claims Act 1 produced evidence of near-gross negligence on the part of Government personnel. Unless the application of some special defensive rule arises to defeat recovery, the plaintiffs should prevail. It is urged by the Government that two such rules completely negative the plaintiffs’ case. The first of these is that “ * * * [A] vendor of land is not subject to liability for bodily harm caused to his vendee or others while upon the land after the vendee has taken possession by any dangerous condition, whether natural or…