UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff,
v.
WESTMORELAND MANGANESE CORPORATION et al., Defendants.
White River Distributors, Inc., et al., Intervenors.
United States District Court E. D. Arkansas, N. D.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
July 30, 1955.
Second Opinion September 23, 1955.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Osro Cobb, U. S. Atty., G. Thomas Eisele, Asst. U. S. Atty., and Gerland P. Patten, Special Asst. to the U. S. Atty., for plaintiff.
M. F. Highsmith, Batesville, Ark., Goodwin & Riffel, Shields M. Goodwin, Little Rock, Ark., for defendant, Westmoreland Manganese Corp.
W. D. Murphy, Jr., and J. J. McCaleb, Batesville, Ark., for Jeffery Lumber Co., Ira Sherrill, Padgett Lumber Co., General Steel Products Co., Latrobe Const. Co., and Choctaw, Inc., all lien claimants, and also for Koppers Co., Inc., Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., Donley Pipe & Supply Co., Bituminous Casualty Corp., Batesville Truck Lines, Inc., Westinghouse Electric Supply Co., Central Scientific Co., Continental Gin Co., Trans World Airlines, Inc., Carnegie Institute of Technology, Transall, Inc., and Fisher Scientific Co., judgment creditors, and also for Cummins Diesel Sales Corp., Southwestern Bell Tel. Co., The Todd Company, Inc., and Industrial Electric & Supply Co., common creditors.
Catlett & Henderson, E. DeMatt Henderson, Little Rock, Ark., for Bragg's Electric Const. Co., a lien claimant.
Charles F. Cole, Batesville, Ark., for Gardner-Denver Corp., a judgment creditor.
Barber, Henry & Thurman, A. L. Barber, E. A. Henry, Little Rock, Ark., for Mill & Mine Supply Co., Crow-Burlingame Co., and Arkansas Foundry Co., lien claimants, and also for Crane Company and B. F. Goodrich Co., common creditors.
Townsend & Townsend, A. E. Townsend, Jr., Little Rock, Ark., for White River Distributors, Inc., White River Oil Co., and Batesville Equipment Co., common creditors.
Mahaffy, Smith & Williams, W. A. Eldredge, Jr., Little Rock, Ark., for Clark Equipment Co., a judgment creditor.
Luke Arnett, Little Rock, Ark., for C. R. Thornbrough, Commissioner of Labor of the State of Arkansas, a tax claimant.
United States District Court E. D. Arkansas, N. D.
LEMLEY, District Judge.
Statement
This litigation, the record in which is voluminous, had its origin in a contract entered into between the plaintiff, United States of America, and the principal defendant, Westmoreland Manganese Corporation, under the terms of which the Government agreed to advance Westmoreland almost four million dollars for the purpose of acquiring mineral lands in Independence and Izard counties, Arkansas, for the construction thereon...
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