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Sigmon v. United States
District Court, W.D. Virginia
Decided March 30, 1953No. Civ. A. 279PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BARKSDALE, District Judge.
Roy William Sigmon has instituted this action against the United States of America for damages for personal injuries which he alleges he sustained while confined at the Federal Reformatory at Petersburg, Virginia, invoking the jurisdiction of this court under the provisions of the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C.A. § 1346(b), and 28 U.S.C.A. §§ 2671-2680. Plaintiff alleges that he was required by one Sheets, a Government employee then in charge of the machine shop, to make use of a certain emery wheel to sharpen an axe, that the emery wheel had been permitted to…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Feres v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1950
- Brooks v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1949
- Coffin v. ReichardCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1944
- Jefferson v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1950
- Jefferson v. United StatesDistrict Court, D. Maryland · 1948
3Cited by16 opinions
- United States v. MunizSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Emil Zoula and Charles C. Sterling v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1955
- Leland K. Aubrey and Charlotte R. Aubrey v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1958
- Henry Winston v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1962
- Harold Jones v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1957
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