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DELGADILLO v. ELLEDGE

Nos. H 71-C-1, H 71-C-3 to H 71-C-5.

337 F.Supp. 827 (1972)

Efraim DELGADILLO, Admr. of the Estates of Patsy Jean Burleson Dix and Jeffrey Allen Dix, Deceased, Plaintiff, v. W. G. ELLEDGE, Jr., Admr. of the Estate of Emerson E. Whitehurst, Deceased, Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff, v. U. S. INDUSTRIES, INC., et al., Third-Party Defendants. Ray LaPRADE, as Admr. of the Estate of John G. Dix, Deceased, Plaintiff, v. W. G. ELLEDGE, Jr., as Admr. of the Estate of E. E. Whitehurst, Deceased, Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff, U. S. Industries, Inc., et al., Defendants, United States of America, Third-Party Defendant. Ray LaPRADE, as Admr. of the Estate of Imogene Dix, Deceased, Plaintiff, v. W. G. ELLEDGE, Jr., as Admr. of the Estate of E. E. Whitehurst, Deceased, Defendnat and Third-Party Plaintiff, U. S. Industries, Inc., et al., Defendants, United States of America and Ray LaPrade, Admr. of the Estate of John Dix, Deceased, Third-Party Defendants. Efraim DELGADILLO, as Admr. of the Estate of Ronnie Carrol Dix, Deceased, Plaintiff, v. W. G. ELLEDGE, Jr., as Admr. of the Estate of E. E. Whitehurst, Deceased, Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff, U. S. Industries, Inc., et al., Defendants, United States of America and Ray LaPrade, Admr. of the Estate of John Dix, Deceased, Third-Party Defendants.

United States District Court, E. D. Arkansas, E. D.

January 21, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. Harley Cox, Jr., Coleman, Gantt, Ramsay & Cox, Pine Bluff, Ark., and Smallwood, Darden & Sumners, New Albany, Miss., for plaintiff Efraim Delgadillo, Admr. of Estates of Patsy Jean Burleson Dix and Jeffrey Allen Dix, Deceased.

Paul Wilkins Denton, and William Dean Peery, Memphis, Tenn., and Harry L. Ponder, Walnut Ridge, Ark., for plaintiff Efraim Delgadillo, Admr. of Estate of Ronnie Carrol Dix, Deceased, and for plaintiff Ray LaPrade, Admr. of the Estates of John G. Dix and Imogene Dix, Deceased.

James B. Sharp, Sharp & Sharp, Brinkley, Ark., for defendant W. G. Elledge, Jr., Admr. of the Estate of Emerson E. Whitehurst, Deceased.

G. D. Walker, Frierson, Walker, Snellgrove & Laser, Jonesboro, Ark., for defendants U. S. Industries, Inc., U. S. Industries, Inc., Southeastern Metals Div., and E. C. Hamm.

James P. Klapps, Trial Atty., Torts Section, U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., and Fletcher Jackson, Asst. U. S. Atty., Little Rock, Ark., for the United States.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

OREN HARRIS, Chief Judge.

In these consolidated actions the third party defendant, United States of America, has filed a motion to dismiss each of the cases against the third party defendant, United States of America, on the basis that the third party complaint fails to state a claim against the United States upon which relief can be granted.

Further, third party defendant, United States of America, contends for dismissal of each...

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