Fort Vancouver Plywood Co., a Washington Corporation v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• tort action based on government’s negligence in burning timber, which plaintiff had contracted to purchase, cognizable under FTCA where “the contract establishes ownership interests, but otherwise is not implicated”
• “The pleadings in this case were accompanied by affidavits. We will therefore treat the motion to dismiss as one for summary judgment, and determine whether there is any genuine issue of material fact_”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).