Johnson v. United States

GALSTON, District Judge.

This action is brought pursuant to the provisions of Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C.A. § 931.

Carl Johnson, the decedent, was a deckhand employed by the City of New York, and was working as such on the ferryboat Knickerbocker on January 26, 1945, when he was struck by a Navy motor truck operated by Clifford F. Stein, Jr., a member of the Naval forces of the United States. Johnson died as the result of the accident.

It is claimed that at the time Stein was operating the truck negligently.

There was no eyewitness to the accident. Some of the facts are undisputed. At or…