Robert B. Wyatt v. United States

This is an appeal by the government from a judgment rendered against it by the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri (District Judge William R. Collinson) in a suit brought under the Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1346(b) and § 2671 et seq., by Robert B. Wyatt, surviving spouse of Mildred Wyatt. The opinion of the district court is reported in 470 F.Supp. 116 (W.D.Mo.1979).

On February 17, 1976 Mr. and Mrs. Wyatt were living in their home in Jackson County, Missouri. On that day an Air Force jet plane crashed into the Wyatt home; Mrs. Wyatt was killed, and the home…