APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF KANSAS. No. 221. Argued March 21, 1889. Decided April 8, 1889. In a suit in equity, brought by the United States to redeem a parcel of land in Kansas, from a mortgage, the defence of laches cannot be set up, although the bill was filed more than twelve years after the defendant obtained title to the land by purchasing it on a foreclosure sale under the mortgage, and more than thirteen years after the United States purchased the