Wolfe v. Gilreath

OPINION

FRANKS, Judge.

Plaintiffs charged defendant-attorney with negligently failing to collect interest on judgments the defendant obtained on the behalf of the plaintiffs against the United States of America under the Federal Tort Claims Act. Responding to defendant’s motion for summary judgment, the trial court held the action was time barred by T.C.A., § 28-3-104.1

The chronology of events pertinent to the issue is:

After plaintiff was inoculated for swine flu in 1976 and suffered a severe reaction, defendant was employed as attorney and filed suit under the Federal Tort Claims Act on behalf…