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VERNELL v. U.S. POSTAL SERVICE

No. 86-4658.

819 F.2d 108 (1987)

Austin VERNELL, Acting for and on Behalf of the community estate and Helen VERNELL, Individually, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

June 12, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank Granger, Norman L. Williams, Lake Charles, La., for plaintiff-appellant.

D.H. Perkins, Shreveport, La., John R. Halliburton, Lawrence W. Moon, Jr., Asst. U.S. Attys., Lafayette, La., Edmund H. Feldman, Law Dept., U.S. Postal Service, Washington, D.C., for defendant-appellee.

Before GOLDBERG, HILL and JONES, Circuit Judges.

ROBERT MADDEN HILL, Circuit Judge:

This appeal presents an issue of first impression for this circuit: how is the six-month statute of limitations period under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) computed.

I.

Helen Vernell alleges that on August 16, 1982, she slipped and fell and injured herself on an excessively waxed floor of the main post office in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Vernell presented a timely and proper administrative claim to the United...

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