Benjamin Parada, and Wife, Rosario Jurado De Parada v. United States

THORNBERRY, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas. Appellants, plaintiffs below, are landovmers whose land and other property was damaged by water that flowed from a break in an irrigation canal constructed, maintained and operated by the Bureau of Reclamation of the United States Department of the Interior. Plaintiffs brought their actions under the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1346 et seq., alleging that the Government was negligent in that: (1) It failed to inspect the canal at the place where the break occurred; (2)…