Crescitelli v. United States

GOODRICH, Circuit Judge.

In this case the libelant, as administrator, has sued in admiralty to recover damages alleged to have been occasioned by the negligence of the employees of the respondents while his son was serving as a seaman on a vessel owned by the United States. The suit was brought more than two years and less than three years after the operative facts occurred. The respondents say the action is not timely; the libelant insists that it is. The District Judge agreed with the respondents and the *378correctness of that position is the sole point of this appeal.

Three federal statutes are…