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Nature of Suit Code: 360
Nature of Suit: Other Personal Injury
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UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS Uoited States Court of Appeab 

Tenth Circuit 

TENTH CIRCUIT 

PENNY SNOW and WILLIAM R. 

HARDMAN, 

Plaintiffs-Appellants, 

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DAVID INSCORE and HENRY 

ZOETMULLER, 

Plaintiffs, 

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 

Defendant-Appellee. 

DENNIS SIMONS, PAT PEDERSON, 

and the STATE OF UTAH 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, 

Plaintiffs-Appellants, 

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 

Defendant-Appellee, 

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SACOL, INC., STANLEY AVIATION) 

CORPORATION, UNIVERSAL ) 

PROPULSION COMPANY and TALLEY) 

Defendants. 

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IAY 2 1991 

.&OBERT L. HOECKER 

No. 90-4073 Clerk 

(D.C. No. 88-C-0503-S) 

(C.D. Utah) 

No. 90-4074 

(D.C. No. 88-C-0579-S) 

(C.D. Utah) 

ORDER AND JUDGMENT* 

Before TACHA and SETH, Circuit Judges, and BRATTON, District 

Judge.** 

* This order and judgment has no precedential value and shall 

Appellate Case: 90-4073 Document: 010110106534 Date Filed: 05/20/1991 Page: 1 
Plaintiffs' negligence claims against the government arose 

when one of their number placed in their campfire a live 40mm 

helicopter-launched anti-personnel grenade that one of them found 

while they were camping on government land. The district court 

granted the government summary judgment based on the superseding 

intervention of the party who placed the grenade in the fire. We 

AFFIRM for substantially the reasons given by the district court. 

ENTERED FOR THE COURT 

Deanell Reece Tacha 

Circuit Judge 

not be cited, or used by any court within the Tenth Circuit, 

except for purposes of establishing the doctrines of the law of 

the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel. 10th Cir. R. 

36.3. 

** The Honorable Howard C. Bratton, Senior United States 

District Judge for the District of New Mexico, sitting by 

designation. 

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Appellate Case: 90-4073 Document: 010110106534 Date Filed: 05/20/1991 Page: 2