Genova Dominguez, as Administratrix of the Estate of Francisco Dominguez, Deceased v. United States

At a time when leaders of the bench and bar are advocating steps to improve the quality of advocacy and to tighten qualifications for practice in the courtroom with a view to improvement in the administration of justice, we are faced upon this appeal with the sad spectacle of how an innocent client can be victimized by gross negligence and incompetence on the part of her trial counsel.

After exhausting her administrative remedies appellant, as administratrix of her husband’s estate, filed suit on June 26,1976, against the Government in the Eastern District of New York under the Federal Tort…