Cross Bros. Meat Packers v. United States

MEMORANDUM

GILES, District Judge.

Cross Brothers Meat Packers, Inc., (Cross) brought this action under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), 28 U.S.C. §§ 1346, 1 2671-2680 (1976), seeking damages of $627,-380.56 from the United States. Plaintiff alleges that, between 1977 and 1979, two Department of Agriculture meat graders employed at plaintiff’s plant consistently graded plaintiff’s meat in a negligent manner, causing plaintiff to lose business and profits. Cross further alleges that its repeated complaints to the graders’ supervisors resulted in neither investigative nor corrective action by…