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UNITED STATES v. BALTIMORE TOWING COMPANY

No. 3830.

144 F.Supp. 854 (1956)

UNITED STATES of America, as owner of THE SIGNAL HILLS, v. The BALTIMORE TOWING COMPANY, Inc. (Dissolved), John D. Shapiro, as president, director and stockholder of the Baltimore Towing Company, Inc. (Dissolved), Lorretto M. Noha, as secretary, director and stockholder of The Baltimore Towing Company, Inc. (Dissolved), William E. Blake, director and stockholder of The Baltimore Towing Company, Inc. (Dissolved), and Boston Metals Company, and Boston Metals Company, as owner of THE LSE 50 and LSE 53.

United States District Court D. Maryland, Admiralty Div.

October 10, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles S. Haight, Jr., Atty., Admiralty and Shipping Section, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., and Walter E. Black, Jr., U. S. Atty., and James H. Langrall, Asst. U. S. Atty., Baltimore, Md., for libellant.

John H. Skeen, Jr., Baltimore, Md., for respondents.

THOMSEN, Chief Judge.

Respondents have filed exceptions, on the ground of laches, to the libel in personam filed against them by the government in 1956 for damages sustained by its tanker in a collision in 1947.

The general rule is that the government is not barred by laches. United States v. Kirkpatrick, 9 Wheat. 720, 735, 6 L.Ed. 199; U. S. v. Summerlin, 310 U.S. 414, 60...

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