Flossie Marie Massey v. United States

TUTTLE, Senior Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from the denial by the trial court of the motion of the United States for summary judgment in a case which had been pending in that court or on appeal since 1971. We affirm that judgment.

Because the trial court’s well-reasoned opinion is not published and because the Georgia law has changed once again since it was entered we refrain from affirming the judgment on the basis of that opinion, a disposition we sometimes make when we have for consideration an opinion as carefully and correctly crafted as the one before us. Nevertheless, we do quote…