COOPER v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 18104, 18716.

442 F.2d 908 (1971)

Charles W. COOPER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

May 20, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anna R. Lavin, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellant.

William J. Bauer, U. S. Atty., Robert B. Schaefer, Asst. U. S. Atty., Chicago, Ill., for defendant-appellee; John Peter Lulinski, Jeffrey Cole, Asst. U. S. Attys., of counsel.

Before SWYGERT, Chief Judge, CASTLE, Senior Circuit Judge, and CUMMINGS, Circuit Judge.


CUMMINGS, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff has appealed from the dismissal of two complaints brought under the Federal Tort Claims Act (28 U.S.C. § 1346(b) and ch. 171). The appeals were consolidated because of the nature of the subject matter of each complaint and the dispositions.

Complaint I, filed in April 1969, sought $250,000 damages for severe injuries suffered by plaintiff in 1967 while confined at the instance of the United States in the Du Page County...

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