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SWIETLOWICH v. COUNTY OF BUCKS

No. 79-1243.

620 F.2d 33 (1980)

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.

April 28, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralf E. Gilbert, Morrisville, Pa., Dean F. Murtagh, Philadelphia, Pa., Leonard B. Sokolove, Bristol, Pa., for appellee Tp. of Bristol.

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

Harry Lore, Martin Heller, Philadelphia, Pa., for appellant.

Donald B. McCoy, Newtown, Pa., for appellee Harry Merker.

Before ADAMS, ROSENN and WEIS, Circuit Judges.

OPINION OF THE COURT

PER CURIAM:

Counsel for plaintiff have presented us with a petition for attorney's fees incurred in the appeal from an adverse result in a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 suit. The district court had entered judgment in favor of the defendants based upon a jury's answers to interrogatories that the statute of limitations barred recovery. We vacated the judgment because of error in the jury instructions and remanded for a new trial. Swietlowich...

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