UNITED STATES v. FIDELITY-BALTIMORE NATIONAL B. & T. CO.

Civ. No. 9328.

173 F.Supp. 565 (1959)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. FIDELITY-BALTIMORE NATIONAL BANK & TRUST COMPANY, a National Banking Association, Successor in interest to The Baltimore National Bank of Baltimore, Maryland, a National Banking Association, Defendant.

United States District Court D. Maryland.

May 25, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leon H. A. Pierson, U. S. Atty., Baltimore, Md., for plaintiff.

Bartlett, Poe & Claggett and Gordon C. Murray, Baltimore, Md., for defendant.


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 checks...

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