Legal Opinion
Kakara v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided October 4, 1946No. 11245PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DENMAN, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from a decree dismissing a libel in personam against the appellee, brought itnder the Suits in Admiralty Act, 46 U.S.C.A. § 741 et seq., because not filed within the two year period of limitation provided in § 5 of that Act as amended in 1932 to read:
“Suits [as] authorized [in] this chapter * * * shall be brought within two years after the cause of action arises.”
The cause of action in the libelant arose on January 23, 1943, and the libel in per-sonam against the United States was filed more than two years later on May 6, 1945.
The libel was for personal…
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