Hubard v. United States

This suit is before us on defendant’s motion to dismiss. It was filed on July 13,1945, under a special jurisdictional act approved June 25,1938 (52 Stat. 1403).

1. This Act contained no special period of limitation within which a suit under it had to be brought and, therefore, the general limitation period of six years fixed by section 156 of the Judicial Code applies. This section requires that a petition on a claim be filed “within six years after the claim *396first accrues.” This has been interpreted to mean “after the right to sue first accrues,” and this is when the special jurisdictional…