Legal Opinion
Lewis Simon v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided May 17, 1957No. 16504_1PublishedCited by 68 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.
This appeal presents a single question for decision. It is whether, filed October 12, 1956, under the Federal Tort Claims Act, for damages sustained in an automobile collision on October 19, 1951, the action was filed too late.
The claim was that: though Section 2401(b) 1 of Title 28, conditions the consent of the United States to be sued in tort upon the bringing of the action within two years after the claim accrued, plaintiff was upon its accrual and until June, 1954, continued to be, under the disability of minority; and that under Sec. 2401(a) 2 he had three years…
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