Legal Opinion
The Messenger
District Court, S.D. Texas
Decided July 3, 1926No. 78PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HUTCHESON, District Judge.
Upon exceptions of laches and limitation.
I have carefully examined the briefs of the parties and the authorities cited, and am constrained to hold that the exceptions should be overruled.
“The principle that the United States are not bound by any statute of limitations, nor barred by any laches of their officers, * * * in a suit brought by them as a sovereign government to enforce a public right, or to assert a public interest, is established past all controversy or doubt.” United States v. Beebe, 127 U. S. 338, 8 S. Ct. 1083, 32 L. Ed. 121. To the same effect are…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- E. I. Dupont De Nemours & Co. v. DavisSupreme Court of the United States · 1924
- United States v. BeebeSupreme Court of the United States · 1888
- Light v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1911
- Chesapeake & Delaware Canal Co. v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1919
- Berizzi Brothers Co. v. SS PesaroSupreme Court of the United States · 1926
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3Cited by5 opinions
- North Dakota-Montana Wheat Growers' Ass'n v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1933
- United States v. Alex Dussel Iron Works, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1929
- The FalconDistrict Court, D. Maryland · 1927
- United States v. Czarnikow-Rionda Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1930
- Finley v. United StatesDistrict Court, D. New Jersey · 1955