Legal Opinion
Borough of Ford City v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided May 26, 1965No. 14832PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff-appellee is a municipality of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. This litigation arose out of alleged damage to its sewer system claimed to have been due to the construction in 1928 by the Department of the Army of a lock and dam on the Allegheny River about five and a half miles below Ford City. Suit was filed September 20, 1960, solely on the authority of a special jurisdictional act of Congress (P.L. 86-538, 74 Stat. 252) which eliminated laches and any statute of limitations in connection therewith. The amended complaint is based upon the Fifth…
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