A-Mark, Inc. v. United States

FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW

HAUK, District Judge.

FINDINGS OF FACT

I

Plaintiff filed the within action on April 14, 1976, seeking damages under the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. §§ 1346(c), 2671-2680. Plaintiff alleges that, in May, 1971, Steven Markoff, its president, voluntarily surrendered one United States silver dollar, dated 1893-S, to an agent of the United States Secret Service, in Los Angeles, California, for authentication as to its genuineness; that the coin, when surrendered, was numismatically graded as “Brilliant, Uncirculated, and Semi-Proof Like”, and that, while…