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AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES, LTD. v. UNITED STATES

No. 12700.

265 F.2d 552 (1959)

AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES, LTD., Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America.

United States Court of Appeals Third Circuit.

Decided April 7, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vern Countryman, Washington, D. C. (David F. Anderson, Berl, Potter & Anderson, Wilmington, Del., Warner W. Gardner, Shea, Greenman & Gardner, Washington, D. C., on the brief), for appellant.

Carl C. Davis, Washington, D. C. (George Cochran Doub, Asst. Atty. Gen., Leonard G. Hagner, U. S. Atty., Wilmington, Del., Samuel D. Slade, George Jaffin, Robert D. Klages, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., on the brief), for appellee.

Before McLAUGHLIN and HASTIE, Circuit Judges, and MORRILL, District Judge.

PER CURIAM.

Libellant sued to recover claimed excessive charter payments. Three charters each covering the two ships in question are involved. In an exhaustive, sound opinion1 Chief Judge Wright held as to all three charters that the libel is patently inadequate on the merits to afford relief and that claims under the first two charters were barred by the statute of limitations. Regarding the latter,

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