Shelley L. Adams v. General Dynamics Corporation, General Dynamics Corporation, Third-Party v. The United States of America, Third-Party

OPINION

Before WRIGHT and KILKENNY, Circuit Judges, and CHRISTENSEN, * District Judge. CHRISTENSEN, District Judge.

Under circumstances comparable to those of the present case, it was held in United Air Lines, Inc. v. Wiener, 335 F.2d 379 (9th Cir.), cert. dismissed sub nom., United Air Lines v. United States, 379 U.S. 951, 85 S.Ct. 452, 13 L.Ed.2d 549 (1964), and reiterated in Wien Alaska Airlines, Inc. v. United States, 375 F.2d 736 (9th Cir.), cert. denied, 389 U.S. 940, 88 S.Ct. 288, 19 L.Ed.2d 291 (1967), that notwithstanding differences in the character of the negligence charged against…