United States v. Thomas O. Hunsucker and Eva Newman Hunsucker

HAMLIN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California, awarding Thomas and Eva Hunsucker, appellees, $119,000 for damages to their farm lands lying adjacent to Oxnard Air Force Base, California. The action was brought by appellees under the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1346(b), § 2671 et seq. Jurisdiction is conferred on this court under the provisions of 28 U.S.C. § 1291.

The district court made the following findings in favor of appellees:

“V. In connection with its operation of said Oxnard Air Force Base,…