Helen R. Gibson and Charles E. Gibson v. United States

GEORGE CLIFTON EDWARDS, Jr., Chief Judge.

Helen and Charles Gibson brought suit for injuries Mrs. Gibson suffered when she slipped and fell on some rice scattered on the aisleway of a Navy Commissary in Millington, Tennessee, operated by the United States Navy.

The United States, as defendant-appellant in this suit, under the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1346(b) (1976), contends that under Tennessee law plaintiffs proved no facts which serve to establish negligence on the part of the United States and its employees:

In the absence of proof by the Gibsons that the government breached its…