Legal Opinion
Mount Vernon Mortgage Corp. v. United States
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided July 5, 1956No. Nos. 12705, 12707PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EDGERTON, Chief Judge.
The United States as parens patriae sues to rescind certain transfers of shares of stock in the Longfellow Building Corporation. The transfers were made by trustees of the National Home Library Foundation, a charitable corporation organized in the District of Columbia. From a judgment in favor of *725the United States for some of the shares and some dividends, the defendants appeal. They contend among other things that the suit is barred by laches and by a three-year statute of limitations, D.C. Code 1951, § 12-201.
Though the transfers were made several years ago, it is not…
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