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JUPITER v. UNITED STATES

Civ. A. No. 8392.

181 F.Supp. 294 (1960)

Ervin JUPITER, Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant.

United States District Court E. D. Louisiana, New Orleans Division.

February 17, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Julian B. Humphrey, New Orleans, La., for plaintiff.

Lloyd C. Melancon, Asst. U. S. Atty., New Orleans, La., W. H. Welsh, Brookley Air Field Base, Ala., for defendant.

Beard, Blue & Schmitt, David C. Treen, New Orleans, La., for Edward Levy Metals, Inc., intervenor.

J. SKELLY WRIGHT, District Judge.

The plaintiff, Ervin Jupiter, was seriously injured when he was thrown from the bed of his truck trailer as it was being loaded with surplus materials at the Brookley Air Force Base in Alabama. At the time, Jupiter was employed by a New Orleans scrap dealer who had purchased the surplus materials from the United States and had sent Jupiter to the base to pick them up.1 Jupiter claims that his injury was...

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