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HART v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 76-3849, 78-1227.

585 F.2d 1280 (1978)

Andrew P. HART and Kirby Lumber Corporation, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant-Appellant. CITY OF LAREDO, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied January 11, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dan McNulty, Asst. U. S. Atty., Beaumont, Tex., Edmund B. Clark, Peter R. Taft, Asst. Attys. Gen., Anne Almy, Atty., Appellate Section, Land and Natural Resources Div., Washington, D. C., Roby Hadden, U. S. Atty., Tyler, Tex., for defendant-appellant U. S.

J. Glenn Barber, Jasper, Tex., for Hart.

Joyce Cox, Houston, Tex., for Kirby Lumber Corp.

H. C. Hall, III, W. W. Allen, Laredo, Tex., for City of Laredo.

J. A. Canales, U. S. Atty., L. G. Clinton, III, Asst. U. S. Atty., Houston, Tex., Carl Strass, Anne S. Almy, U. S. Dept. of Justice, Lands and Natural Resources Div., Appellate Section, Sanford Sagalkin, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., Raymond N. Zagone, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for defendant-appellee U. S.

Before GEE and VANCE, Circuit Judges, and HUNTER, District Judge.

VANCE, Circuit Judge:

These appeals present similar issues arising under the Quiet Title Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2409a. We hold that both suits were time-barred by the twelve-year statute of limitations contained in the Act, Title 28, U.S.C. § 2409a(f). The facts are different in the two cases and will be stated separately.

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