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UNITED STATES v. FIDELITY & DEPOSIT CO. OF MARYLAND

No. 14604.

214 F.2d 565 (1954)

UNITED STATES v. FIDELITY & DEPOSIT CO. OF MARYLAND et al.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

July 6, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carolyn R. Just, Ellis N. Slack, A. F. Prescott, Fred E. Youngman, Special Asst. to the Atty. Gen., H. Brian Holland, Asst. Atty. Gen., Joseph E. Brown, U. S. Atty., Jackson, Miss., Jesse W. Shanks, Asst. U. S. Atty., Jackson, Miss., for appellant.

William E. Suddath, Jr., James L. Spencer, W. H. Watkins, Sr., Forrest B. Jackson, Jackson, Miss., for appellee.

P. H. Eager, Jr., Thomas H. Watkins, Jackson, Miss., for appellee, Fidelity & Deposit Co. of Maryland.

Watkins, Edwards & Ludlam, Jackson, Miss., for appellee, Deposit Guaranty Bank & Trust Co. of Jackson, Miss., Deposit Guaranty Bank and Trust Co. of Jackson, Miss., as trustee for the R. V. Powers Foundation, and H. V. Watkins, Trustee for Deposit Guaranty Bank & Trust Co. of Jackson, Miss., trustee for R. V. Powers Foundation.

Before BORAH, and RUSSELL, Circuit Judges, and DAWKINS, District Judge.

BORAH, Circuit Judge.

Fidelity & Deposit Company of Maryland, hereinafter called the bonding company, brought this action in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi against E. E. Lovell and Mrs. Lavinia B. Lovell, his wife, seeking a judgment against Lovell, a contractor whom it had bonded, and seeking to set aside a deed (for his one-half interest in the homestead) from Lovell to his wife, dated November 19, 1948. Also named...

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