Jordan v. United States

LEE, Circuit Judge.

In July of 1947, the appellant, as plain! tiff, brought this suit in the lower court against the United States Government to recover damages under the Federal Tort Claims Act1 for personal injuries. Prior to the passage of the Tort Claims'Act, settlement had been effected under the act of July 3, 1943,2 and the question posed on this appeal is whether that settlement was full and final.

The accident out of which the alleged cause of action grows occurred in March in 1945 in Atlanta, Ga., when James A. Jordan’s car, which he himself was driving, collided with-a United States…