Legal Opinion
Sumner v. United States
District Court, M.D. Tennessee
Decided April 29, 1992No. 3:90-0204PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
JOHN T. NIXON, Chief Judge.
Having held a trial without a jury in the above styled action, the Court makes the following findings of fact and conclusions of law.
I. FACTS
On April 28, 1989, the eighteen year old plaintiff, David Sumner, his older brother, Michael, and their friend, William “Junior” Miles, Jr., travelled in Miles’ car into an area known as the rear area of the Fort Campbell army base. The rear area comprises 105,000 acres of undeveloped land that the army uses for various purposes. The young men entered the base via a gravel road named Big Rock Road. A sign at the…
2Cases cited37 opinions
- United States v. TestanSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- United States v. GaubertSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
- Berkovitz v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1988
- Dalehite v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1953
- Feres v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1950
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3Cited by10 opinions
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