Drummond v. United States

BRYAN, District Judge.

The United States moves to dismiss this action brought under the Federal Tort Claims Act, Public Law 601, 79th Congress, C. 753, 2nd Session, approved August 2, 1946, 28 U.S.C.A. § 921 et seq., upon the ground that other persons, alleged as joint tortfeasors, have been made parties defendant with the United States.

Thus is squarely presented the question whether the Act permits a plaintiff in such an action to join a co-defendant with the United States without the latter’s consent. The Court holds that it does not.

Nowhere in the statute does the Congress manifest an…