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SWIETLOWICH v. COUNTY OF BUCKS

No. 79-1243.

610 F.2d 1157 (1979)

Helen D. SWIETLOWICH, Administratrix of the Estate of Joseph A. Swietlowich, Deceased and Helen D. Swietlowich, in her own right, Appellant, v. COUNTY OF BUCKS and Township of Bristol and Harry Merker and Sgt. Stanley Martin and Sgt. Walter Hughes and Patrolman H. J. McDonough, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided December 5, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph E. Gilbert, Curtin & Heefner, Morrisville, Pa., Dean F. Murtagh, LaBrum & Doak, Philadelphia, Pa., Leonard B. Sokolove, Bristol, Pa., for appellee Township of Bristol.

Donald M. McCoy, Langhorne, Pa., for appellee Harry Merker.

Robert A. Godwin (argued), Newtown, Pa., for appellees Martin, Hughes, and McDonough.

Harry Lore (argued), Martin Heller, Philadelphia, Pa., for appellant.

Peter N. Harrison, First Asst. County Sol., Bucks County, Doylestown, Pa., for appellee County of Bucks.

Before ADAMS, ROSENN, and WEIS, Circuit Judges.

OPINION OF THE COURT

WEIS, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff in this civil rights case alleges that compliance by police officers with their duty to look in on prisoners periodically would have prevented her husband's suicide in a jail cell. Following instructions that did not adequately explain that the limitations period may have been suspended if police assertions of vigilance were untrue, the jury found the suit...

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