Daniels v. States Marine Corp. of Delaware

J. SKELLY WRIGHT, District Judge.

Plaintiff, a longshoreman, was injured when a rope sling parted, allowing several one-hundred-pound sacks of soybeans to fall on him, in the hold of the S. S. Hoosier State. States Marine Corporation, owner of the Hoosier State, has moved to dismiss on the ground that this action, though based on the general maritime law,1 is time barred under Article 3536 of the LSA-Civil Code.2' In the alternative, defendant asserts that if the time limitation of this action is to be determined by the doctrine of laches, in spite of the fact that its jurisdictional basis in…