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BAKER v. AMOCO OIL CO.

No. 91-2033.

956 F.2d 639 (1992)

Terry J. BAKER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. AMOCO OIL COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided February 7, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John F. Maloney, Mary A. Moore (argued), McNally, Maloney & Peterson, Milwaukee, Wis., for plaintiff-appellant.

Alexander T. Pendelton, Cook & Franke, Robert F. Johnson, Thomas N. Harrington (argued), Milwaukee, Wis., Richard J. Stevens, Amoco Corp., Chicago, Ill., for defendant-appellee.

Before FLAUM, EASTERBROOK and MANION, Circuit Judges.

EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

During the early nineteenth century anyone shorter than 1.57 meters was immune from conscription into the French army. Adolphe Quetelet discovered that by the army's measurements there was a statistical deficit of males just over that height and a corresponding surplus of persons just under it. Quetelet inferred that 2,200 of each 100,000 persons either had shrunk themselves or had bribed the measurer...

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