Case Name: Howard T. Foulkes, Administrator de bonis non cum testamento annexo in the will of Charles Durkee, deceased
Court: United States Court of Claims
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1965-10-29
Citations: 173 Ct. Cl. 1179
Docket Number: No. 401-64
Parties: Howard T. Foulkes, Administrator de bonis non cum testamento annexo in the will of Charles Durkee, deceased.
Judges: 
Reporter: United States Court of Claims Reports
Volume: 173
Pages: 1179–1180

Head Matter:
No. 401-64.
October 29, 1965
Howard T. Foulkes, Administrator de bonis non cum testamento annexo in the will of Charles Durkee, deceased.

Opinion:
Limitation of actions. — Plaintiff sues to recover $187,500,000 allegedly .carried as trust assets in the United States Treasury for the purpose of retiring certain bonds is-, sued for the construction of the Pacific railroads. The case came before the court on defendant's motion for summary judgment asserting that the claim was barred under the doctrine of laches and by the statute of limitations as well as under the doctrine of res judicata. Upon consideration thereof and without oral argument the court concluded that the claim was barred by limitations and laches and on October 29, 1965, the petition was dismissed. Plaintiff's petition for a writ of certiorari was denied, 383 U.S. 944 (1966).