Costley v. United States

HOLMES, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from the dismissal of a suit brought by the plaintiffs under the Fed eral Tort Claims Act 1 - f.or negligence of the employees of an army hospital in administering a harmful substance, instead of the prescribed spinal -anaesthetic, to a Piaster sergeant’s wife who had been admitted to the maternity section of the hospital.

-Johri L.'Costley, one of the appellants, was a master sergeant in the United States Army Air Force. Marie C. Costley, his dependent wife and also an appellant, was admitted to the maternity section of' Brooke General Hospital, ah army…