Richard L. Glasscock v. United States

This is an appeal by Richard L. Glass-cock, the plaintiff, from a judgment for the defendant in his action under the Federal Tort Claims Act. The District Court found no primary negligence on the part of the defendant and found alternatively that plaintiff was barred by his own negligence.

On October 16, 1959, the plaintiff was seriously burned while engaged as a lineman for the Seal Electric Company on defendant’s property at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. The defendant had awarded a contract to the Seal Electric Company to convert the then existing power line at Fort Belvoir from 2300 to 4160…