Legal Opinion
Johnson v. United States
District Court, M.D. Florida
Decided March 23, 1976No. 71-921-Civ-J-T and 71-922-Civ-J-TPublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge.
These two companion suits were brought pursuant to the Federal Tort Claims Act 1 by the widow of Jimmy Ray Johnson, a United States Army sergeant who at the time of his death in 1971 was stationed at Fort Stewart, Georgia. In both cases, plaintiff alleges that Fort Stewart’s hospital staff negligently failed to provide adequate medical care to her mentally ill husband; furthermore, it is alleged that the Government was negligent in permitting Sergeant Johnson to leave the hospital and the post after a ten-day hospitalization in January 1971. According…
2Cases cited19 opinions
- Feres v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1950
- Shea v. PhillipsSupreme Court of Georgia · 1957
- Mrs. Cordie Ola Fair v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1956
- Frank J. Underwood, as Administrator of the Estate of Shirley Underwood Dunn, Deceased v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1966
- St. George v. StateAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1954
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3Cited by6 opinions
- Durflinger v. ArtilesSupreme Court of Kansas · 1983
- Littleton v. Good Samaritan Hospital & Health CenterOhio Supreme Court · 1988
- Lipari v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.District Court, D. Nebraska · 1980
- Durflinger v. ArtilesCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1984
- Nesbitt v. COMMUNITY HEALTH, S. DADEDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1985
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