United States v. Galveston Dry Dock & Const. Co.

BRYAN. Circuit Judge.

This is a libel filed by appellee on December 24, 1923, for repairs made in 1920 to the Steamship Latham, against the United States, its owner, and the F.mergency Fleet Corporation. A prior libel, in all respects similar except that it was against the Fleet Corporation only, brought in July, 1923, was in September 1923, dismissed by the libelant, as it is stipulated, not because of a lack of prosecution, but for the reason that “it had not been brought within the time prescribed by the Suits in Admiralty Act, and respondent was insisting” by exception upon the two-year…