Schaff v. United States

The only defense attempted to be interposed in this case is the statute of limitations of three years contained in the transportation act of February 28.1920, 41 Stat. 492. Unless that limitation applies the plaintiff is clearly entitled to a judgment. We have indicated, in former opinions that the statute does apply to suits by carriers against the Govern*322ment, but it has not been necessary in these former cases to apply the statute. Expressions in some of these cases may be responsible for the contention here made that the plaintiff’s cause of action accrued more than three years before suit…