CITY COMPRESS & WAREHOUSE CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 6266.

190 F.2d 699 (1951)

CITY COMPRESS & WAREHOUSE CO. et al. v. UNITED STATES et al. The SOUTHPORT.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided July 20, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George L. Buist, Charleston, S. C. (Buist & Buist, Charleston, S. C., on the brief), for appellant, City Compress & Warehouse Co.

Harold A. Mouzon, Charleston, S. C. (Moore & Mouzon and B. Allston Moore, Charleston, S. C., on the brief), for appellant, South Atlantic S. S. Line, Inc.

George L. Varian, New York City (Hagood, Rivers & Young, Charleston, S. C., and Crowell & Rouse, New York City, on the brief), for appellee, Todd Atlantic Shipyards Corp.

William T. Foley, Jr., Atty. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C. (Holmes Baldridge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Ben Scott Whaley, U. S. Atty., Charleston, S. C., and J. Frank Staley, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., on the brief), for appellee, United States.

Before PARKER, Chief Judge, and SOPER and DOBIE, Circuit Judges.


DOBIE, Circuit Judge.

This consolidated case on appeal commenced as two separate cases. In one, the United States of America filed, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of South Carolina, its libel against the Steamship Southport and the South Atlantic Steamship Lines, Inc., (hereinafter called Atlantic); and in the other suit Todd Atlantic Shipyards Corporation (hereinafter called Todd) filed, in the same court, its libel against the same...

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