Knight v. United States

The Government has made a motion to dismiss the plaintiff’s petition on the ground that the petition shows on its face that the plaintiff’s cause of action accrued more than twelve years prior to the filing of the petition and that, therefore, the suit is barred by the statute of limitations, 28 U.S.C. § 2501.

The plaintiff’s petition, so far as is necessary to a decision on the instant motion, alleges that he served as a commissioned officer in the United States Army in World War I; that he was wounded in action in that war, which wounds affected his hearing; that after a period of membership…