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STOLESON v. UNITED STATES

No. 82-1714.

708 F.2d 1217 (1983)

Helen J. STOLESON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided May 20, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald L. Wallenfang, Quarles & Brady, Milwaukee, Wis., for plaintiff-appellant.

John R. Byrnes, Asst. U.S. Atty., Madison, Wis., for defendant-appellee.

Before PELL and POSNER, Circuit Judges, and BROWN, Senior Circuit Judge.

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

This appeal brings before us for the second time the celebrated case of Helen Stoleson and her "dynamite heart." See, e.g., Time, July 12, 1971, at 41. The issues on appeal this time concern the causal relationship, if any, between the defendant's now conceded negligence and the symptoms that Mrs. Stoleson has continued to experience long after the elimination of their organic cause.

Mrs. Stoleson, now 64 years old, began working...

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