CRAWFORD v. UNITED STATES

No. 85-3085.

796 F.2d 924 (1986)

Bruce CRAWFORD, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 17, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William O. Krohn, Robert J. Jenkins, Krohn & Najib, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellant.

Anton R. Valukas, U.S. Atty., James T. Hynes, Elizabeth Stein, Asst. U.S. Attys., Chicago, Ill., for defendant-appellee.

Before CUDAHY, POSNER and EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judges.


POSNER, Circuit Judge.

The district court granted the government's motion to dismiss Bruce Crawford's suit under the Federal Tort Claims Act as untimely, see 28 U.S.C. § 2401(b), and he appeals, presenting a question of some complexity concerning proof of timeliness in a suit under the Act.

In 1980 Crawford, who was then 19 years old and afflicted with Sturge-Weber Syndrome (as an alleged consequence of which...

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