Michael D. Manemann v. United States

LEWIS, Circuit Judge.

Appellant-plaintiff, alleging jurisdiction under the Federal Tort Claims Act, filed an action in the District Court for the District of Colorado, seeking damages for injuries caused by the negligent professional acts of a medical staff member of the United States armed forces occurring in 1962 in Taiwan. Appellant, then a minor dependent of a member of the armed forces, was examined for tuberculosis and advised that he was not infected by the disease. He alleges that the diagnosis was negligently made and that his chest x-ray showed the presence of the disease. In 1965,…