PLEASON v. GULFPORT SHIPBUILDING CORPORATION

No. 15151.

221 F.2d 621 (1955)

David J. PLEASON and I. Dorfman, owners and claimants of THE CAROL ANN, Appellants, v. GULFPORT SHIPBUILDING CORPORATION, McIntosh Electric Supply Co., Inc., and H. S. McIntosh, an individual, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

March 30, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul Y. Cunningham, Brownsville, Tex., Sharpe, Cunningham & Garza, Brownsville, Tex., for appellants.

Louis H. Beard, Leslie M. Ball, George W. Brown, Jr., Beaumont, Tex., Robert H. Kern, Jr., McAllen, Tex., Tatum, Camp & Ball, Beaumont, Tex., for appellee Gulfport Shipbuilding Corp.

Before HOLMES and RIVES, Circuit Judges, and THOMAS, District Judge.


THOMAS, District Judge.

Libels in rem were filed against the M/V Carol Ann by the Gulfport Shipbuilding Corporation, McIntosh Electric Supply Company, Inc., and H. S. McIntosh, individually. The libels sought to establish as maritime liens the costs of certain materials, equipment and labor furnished by the libelants to the M/V Carol Ann in June, July and August of 1952. The appellants filed claim to the Carol Ann, and thereafter filed an answer to the libels. The...

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