Cannon v. United States

GOODMAN, District Judge.

This suit is one under the Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C.A. § 921 et seq., 1948 Revision, 28 U.S.C.A. § 2671 et seq.

The Court has had under advisement the motion of the United States for dismissal made at the conclusion of the plaintiff’s case.

The facts are that plaintiff was a civilian medical secretary or clerk employed in the De Witt General Hospital at Auburn, Galifornia, operated by the Medical Department of the War Department. On June 14, 1945, while she was such employee, Colonel William Smith, commanding officer of the hospital, arranged for her to be operated upon…