PERSON v. KIEFFER

Civ. A. No. 86-320.

634 F.Supp. 892 (1986)

Jesse PERSON v. Officer George KIEFFER, Badge No. 1954 Individually and as a Police Officer and Officer John Doe, Individually and as a Police Officer and Officer Richard Roe, Individually and as a Police Officer and W. Wilson Goode, Individually and as Managing Director of the City of Phila. and W.J. Green, Individually and as Mayor of the City of Philadelphia and City of Philadelphia.

United States District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania.

May 14, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman Shigon, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiff.

Agostino Cammisa, City of Philadelphia Law Dept., Philadelphia, Pa., for defendant.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

KATZ, District Judge.

This case raises interesting questions about the application of the statute of limitations to a mentally ill plaintiff.

Plaintiff claims that the defendant officers assaulted him by ordering their police dog to attack him. He contends that he was merely looking at books at a magazine stand nearby the entrance of the Suburban Train Station, at 16th Street and John F. Kennedy Boulevard, when the defendant...

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