Legal Opinion
Andrew Oroz v. American President Lines, Ltd.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided September 30, 1958No. 208, Docket 24662PublishedCited by 82 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LUMBARD, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff, a longshoreman, appeals from a judgment by Judge Walsh, Southern District of New York, dismissing his civil action which was commenced five years after the alleged negligence and unseaworthiness on the ground that it was barred by a two year New Jersey statute of limitations or, in the alternative, by laches. The questions for decision are whether a statute of limitations or laches is the proper limitation to a maritime tort action brought on the civil side of a federal court; and if the admiralty doctrine of laches applies, whether the lower court properly…
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