Thomason v. Works Projects Administration

HEALY, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from a dismissal of appellant’s complaint in a suit against the Works Projects Administration, Miller its administrator for Idaho, and Hedges a local supervisor for the Administration.

The complaint shows that in the summer of 1938 one Thomason, who was appellant’s husband, was employed in a weed control project administered by the Works Progress Administration. In the conduct of his work Thomason applied to the soil certain chemicals described as highly dangerous and poisonous to man. While so engaged he was overcome by fumes of the chemicals, became…