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FREEMAN v. UNITED STATES

No. 73-2231.

509 F.2d 626 (1975)

Ramona FREEMAN, etc., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

January 24, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frederick M. Coleman, U. S. Atty., Cleveland, Ohio, Ronald Glancz, Michael Stein, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Carla A. Hills, New York City, Morton Hollander, Washington, D. C., for defendant-appellant.

Norman W. Shibley, Donald P. Traci, Spangenberg, Hasenflue, Shibley, & Traci, Cleveland, Ohio, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before CELEBREZZE and McCREE, Circuit Judges, and CECIL, Senior Circuit Judge.

McCREE, Circuit Judge.

This appeal requires us to determine whether the federal government is liable, under the Federal Tort Claims Act, for the deaths of sixteen persons and for injuries to two others who parachuted through a cloud cover into Lake Erie at the direction of their jump master and their pilot who had been misinformed by a federal air traffic controller that his airplane was over the Ohio airport where the parachutists were scheduled to land. The Government...

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