KONRADI v. U.S.

No. 89-3532.

919 F.2d 1207 (1990)

Gail D. KONRADI, Personal Representative of the Estate of Glenn J. Konradi, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America and Robert E. Farringer, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided November 29, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas A. Withrow, David J. Bodle, and Scott S. Morrisson, Henderson, Daily, Withrow & Devoe, Indianapolis, Ind., and Richard K. Levi, Earnest, Foster, Eder, Levi & Northam, Rushville, Ind., for plaintiff-appellant.

Gerald A. Coraz, Asst. U.S. Atty., Deborah J. Daniels, U.S. Atty., Office of the U.S. Atty., John S. Langan, Davis, Davis & Langan, Indianapolis, Ind., and E. Edward Dunsmore, Knightstown, Ind., for defendants-appellees.

Before POSNER, RIPPLE and MANION, Circuit Judges.


POSNER, Circuit Judge.

While driving to work early one morning Robert Farringer, a rural mailman, struck a car driven by the plaintiff's decedent, Glenn Konradi, killing him. The suit is against the United States under the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. §§ 1346(b), 2671 et seq., with a pendent-party claim under state law against Farringer. The basis of both claims is that Farringer's negligence in failing to yield the right of way to Konradi at...

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