PER CURIAM.
The District Court dismissed, for laches, the libel of the present appellant, a longshoreman who sustained injuries in 1949, but did not bring his action against the ship until 1956.
As this delay of nearly seven years exceeds any possibly applicable limitations period, it became the duty of the libellant to plead and prove facts negativing a presumption of prejudice from inexcusable delay. The presumption would be against prejudice if suit had...
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