Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit March 30, 1982, 80-1068 (Anna Carlyle, Guardian of the Estate of Henry Robinson, Jr. v. United States of America, Department of the Army)

JOHN W. PECK, Senior Circuit Judge.

The facts of this case are distressing and lamentable. On December 1, 1975, plaintiff’s ward was standing on the public sidewalk outside the Sheraton Cadillac Hotel in Detroit. He was hit by a bench thrown from a sixteenth floor window by two U.S.