THE MESSENGER

No. 78.

14 F.2d 147 (1926)

THE MESSENGER.

District Court, S. D. Texas, at Houston.

July 3, 1926.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. M. Holden, U. S. Atty., of Houston, Tex., and Clinton M. Hester, Admiralty Atty. U. S. Shipping Board, of Washington, D. C.

Mart Royston, of Galveston, Tex., for respondent.


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...

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