GARRETT v. UNITED STATES

No. 79-1355.

640 F.2d 24 (1981)

Rufus A. GARRETT, Administrator of the Estate of Ronald Keith Garrett, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided February 5, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles S. Anderson, James D. O'Connell, Highland Park, Mich., for plaintiff-appellant.

James K. Robinson, U. S. Atty., Pamela J. Thompson, Patricia Reeves, Asst. U. S. Attys., Detroit, Mich., for defendant-appellee.

Before MARTIN and JONES, Circuit Judges, and PHILLIPS, Senior Circuit Judge.


PER CURIAM.

This appeal presents the question of when the statute of limitations under the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2401(b), begins to run.1 Senior District Judge Thomas P. Thornton found that appellant failed to file an administrative claim within the statutory period, measured from the date of the death of appellant's decedent, and dismissed the complaint. We affirm.

Appellant's decedent died on May 5, 1976,...

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