Brown v. United States

MEMORANDUM AND JUDGMENT

HENLEY, Chief Judge.

As this ease now stands, it is an action for damages brought against the Government by the plaintiff, Levon Brown, under the provisions of the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C.A., section 2671 et seq. Jurisdiction is predicated on 28 U.S.C.A., section 1346(b).

The suit arises from the fact that in January 1969 and again in mid-March of that year Brown, while confined as a federal prisoner in the Pulaski County Jail in Little Rock, Arkansas, was physically assaulted and injured to some-extent by other inmates of the common cell in which he and they…