Legal Opinion
Watkins v. United States
District Court, S.D. Georgia
Decided January 3, 1977No. Civ. A. 176-91PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALAIMO, District Judge.
ORDER
The plaintiff’s husband, a serviceman stationed at Fort Gordon, Georgia, was killed on base when his motorcycle collided with a shuttle bus driven by a civilian government employee. After the denial of her administrative claim, plaintiff, Effie Lee Watkins, a Missouri resident, brought this action against the United States under the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2671 et seq., and its jurisdictional arm, 28 U.S.C. § 1346(b). The Georgia driver, Joseph L. Williams, was also named as a defendant.
Williams moved to dismiss on the basis of the Federal Drivers Act,…
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