HATFIELD v. BISHOP CLARKSON MEMORIAL HOSP.

Nos. 81-2114, 82-1010.

701 F.2d 1266 (1983)

Tamara HATFIELD, By her father and next friend, Samuel HATFIELD, Appellant, v. BISHOP CLARKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, a Nebraska corporation, John Harold George, Appellee. (Two cases.)

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided March 17, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard J. Dinsmore, Omaha, Neb., for plaintiff-appellant Tamara Hatfield.

Terry J. Grennan of Cassem, Tierney, Adams, Gotch & Douglas, Omaha, Neb., for appellee Bishop Clarkson Memorial Hospital.

Lyman L. Larsen and William M. Lamson, Jr., of Kennedy, Holland, DeLacy & Svoboda, Omaha, Neb., for defendant-appellee John Harold George.

Woods, Aitken, Smith, Greer, Overcash & Spangler, Richard L. Spangler, Jr., Lincoln, Neb., for Drackett.

Clay B. Statmore, Lincoln, Neb., for Macku.

Before LAY, Chief Judge, and HEANEY, BRIGHT, ROSS, McMILLIAN, ARNOLD and JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judges.


ROSS, Circuit Judge.

This case comes before this court on rehearing en banc. As stated in the panel opinion "[t]he sole question in this case is whether a Nebraska statute of limitations on professional negligence actions is tolled during the infancy of an injured minor." Hatfield v. Bishop Clarkson Memorial Hosp., 679 F.2d 1258 (8th Cir.1982).

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