UNITED STATES v. MARYLAND CASUALTY COMPANY

Nos. 15963, 15964.

235 F.2d 50 (1956)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. MARYLAND CASUALTY COMPANY, Appellee. UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. HIBERNIA NATIONAL BANK IN NEW ORLEANS, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

June 30, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Geo. S. Leonard, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., Charles S. Haight, Jr., Atty. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., C. W. Eggart, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Pensacola, Fla., Harrold Carswell, U. S. Atty., Tallahassee, Fla., Leavenworth Colby, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

E. Dixie Beggs, of Yonge, Beggs & Lane, Pensacola, Fla., for appellees.

Before RIVES, CAMERON and BROWN, Circuit Judges.


JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge.

Over the objection of two holders of ordinary, simple non-maritime, non-preferred mortgages covering the tugs Dixie and Juno, the District Court declined to permit the Government to file against the proceeds of the sale of the tugs interventions asserting claims1 for collision damage to governmental navigational aids and works. Resisting the importunities through a literal application of its local Admiralty...

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