Legal Opinion
Bobby Wayne Goff v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided October 15, 1981No. 81-4148PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Per curiam
This is a suit by Bobby Wayne Goff against the United States Government under the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. §§ 1346(b) and 2671 et seq. Appellant Goff was working as an independent contractor at Keesler Air Force Base in Mississippi. His responsibility was to disassemble a pool table and reassemble it in another building. The actual moving of the parts of the pool table was left to Air Force personnel. Goff alleged that the Air Force personnel improperly leaned the pool table slates against the wall in the new location in such a way that one of them slipped and fell upon his foot,…
2Cases cited10 opinions
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