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UNITED STATES v. SENTINEL FIRE INS. CO.

No. 12513.

178 F.2d 217 (1949)

UNITED STATES et al. v. SENTINEL FIRE INS. CO. et al.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied December 2, 1949.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Theron Lamar Caudle, Asst. Atty. Gen., George A. Stinson, Ellis N. Slack, Helen Goodner, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., Joseph E. Brown, U. S. Atty., Jackson, Miss., for the United States.

Daniel E. Breland, Weaver E. Gore, John G. Burkett, Jackson, Miss., for appellants Breland and Pyles.

John Harvey Thompson, Thomas H. Watkins, Jackson, Miss., for appellees.

Before HUTCHESON, SIBLEY, HOLMES, McCORD, and WALLER, en banc. (Judge LEE not participating.)

WALLER, Circuit Judge.

This interpleader suit, by Sentinel and six other fire insurance companies, was purportedly brought under the Federal Interpleader Statute, Sec. 41(26), Title 28 U. S.C.A., as amended January 20, 1936,1 and as supplemented by Rule 22(1) and (2) of Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, 28 U.S.C.A.,2 against William Harold Davis, doing business as...

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