Cobb v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
ORR, Circuit Judge.
The controlling question on this appeal is whether the federal government has, by virtue of the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C.A. §§ 2671-2680, consented to he sued on a tort claim arising out of an accident which took place in October, 1948, on the island of Okinawa. In brief, the question is whether Okinawa was at that time a “foreign -country” within the meaning of 28 U.S.C.A. § 2680(k) which excludes from the scope of the Act: “Any claim arising in a foreign country.”
Appellant brought this action in the United States District Court for the Northern District of…
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