THE KEY CITY. DECEMBER TERM, 1871. 1. While courts of admiralty are not governed by any statute of limitations, they adopt the principle that laches or delay in the judicial enforcement of maritime liens, will, under proper circumstances, constitute a valid defence. 2. No arbitrary or fixed period of time has been, or will be […]
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81 U.S. 653
81 U.S. 653 81 U.S. 653 20 L.Ed. 896 14 Wall. 653 THE KEY CITY. December Term, 1871 APPEAL from the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin; the case being thus: Young shipped a quantity of wheat on the steamboat Key City, a vessel owned by a corporation called the Northwestern Packet Company, […]