Legal Opinion
Marcos v. United States
United States Court of Claims
Decided July 15, 1952No. 50278PublishedCited by 47 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HOWELL, Judge.
On February 5, 1952, this court 102 F. Supp. 547, denied defendant’s motion to dismiss plaintiff’s petition as being barred by the Statute of Limitations, 28 U.S.C.A. § 2501, 62 Stat. 976. We concluded that the outbreak of war in the Philippine Islands on December 8, 1941, suspended the normal operation of the Statute of Limitations that this suspension was lifted on September 2, 1945, by the formal surrender of Japan, and that Filipino claimants, such as plaintiff, whose causes of action arose after the outbreak of hostilities and during the period of th,e suspension of the…
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3Cited by47 opinions
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