prejudice must be shown and may not be presumed from unreasonable delay
How later courts described this case
- prejudice must be shown and may not be presumed from unreasonable delay
- “If the delay has caused no material change in status quo, ante, i.e., no detriment suffered by the party pleading the laches, his plea is in vain.”
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
McCOMB, J.
I concur in the judgment of reversal but not in all the statements in the opinion.