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UNITED STATES v. CENTRAL SOYA, INC.

No. 81-2380.

697 F.2d 165 (1982)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CENTRAL SOYA, INC., and Canton Towing Company, Inc., in personam, and Barge AD-609B, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided December 30, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas L. Jones, Dept. of Justice, Civ. Div., Torts Branch, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff-appellant.

John Halpern, Goldstein & Price, St. Louis, Mo., for defendants-appellees.

Before PELL, BAUER, and WOOD, Circuit Judges.

PELL, Circuit Judge.

The novel issue we must address in this case is whether 28 U.S.C. § 2415(b), which requires the United States to bring all actions "founded upon a tort" within three years of the accrual of such causes of action, is applicable to this Government brought action arising out of property damage to a federally-owned lock and dam. The district court concluded that the United States' entire action was time...

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