United States v. Fidelity-Baltimore National Bank & Trust Co.

THOMSEN, Chief Judge.

The question now before the court is whether the government’s action is barred by either limitations or laches. A separate trial has been had on those issues, which were raised by the answer.

During the years 1946, 1947 and 1948, the Maryland Department of Employment Security, a state agency acting for the federal government under Title V of the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944, as amended, 38 U.S.C.A. § 696 et seq., drew cheeks on an account which the agency maintained with defendant bank and in which it deposited funds supplied by the United States.

For the purposes…