Legal Opinion
Zeidler v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided June 13, 1979No. 78-1190PublishedCited by 49 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAM E. DOYLE, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Kansas, the effect of which was to sustain the defendant’s motion to dismiss a tort claim action against the United States. The claim was based on the two lobotomy operations performed by the government in an effort to control plaintiff’s conduct. The *528operations occurred at the Veterans Administration Hospital at Topeka, Kansas.
The operations were performed in 1947 and 1948. The trial court ruled that any action was barred by the two-year statute of limitations applicable…
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