Polarus Steamship Co. v. United States

CLANCY, District Judge.

Respondent has excepted to the libels because these five suits in admiralty were not instituted within two years after the several claims arose as required by the Suits in Admiralty Act, 46 U.S.C.A. § 745. The actions are alike. Each is for a breach of the bareboat charter of a vessel by respondents to libellant. It is alleged that under the terms of the charter respondents assumed responsibility for the cost and time of repairs occasioned by latent defects in the vessel, its machinery or appurtenances or defects due to locked-in stresses existing at the time of…