Opinion · United States Court of Claims
Japanese War Notes Ass'n of Philippines, Inc. v. United States
178 Ct. Cl. 630
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- United States Court of Claims
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1967-12-04
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- “[T]he statute will not begin to run until plaintiff learns or reasonably should have learned of [its] cause of action.”
- equitable tolling appropriate when “defendant has concealed its acts with the result that plaintiff’s] ... injury was inherently unknowable at the accrual date”
- “An example of [an inherently unknowable injury] would be when defendant delivers the wrong type of fruit tree to plaintiff and the wrong cannot be determined until the tree bears fruit.”
- “Ignorance of rights which should be known is not enough.”
Citator
UpLaw has not yet analyzed Japanese War Notes Ass'n of Philippines, Inc. v. United States. The absence of a flag is not a finding that it is good law.
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- 142 opinions
Plaintiff’s petition for writ of certiorari denied by the Supreme Court December 4, 1967.