UNITED STATES v. SEABOARD MACHINERY CORPORATION

No. 16845.

256 F.2d 166 (1958)

UNITED STATES of America, Intervenor, Appellant, v. SEABOARD MACHINERY CORPORATION, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied June 30, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harrold Carswell, U. S. Atty., Wilfred C. Varn, Asst. U. S. Atty., Tallahassee, Fla., William W. Ross, Melvin Richter, Attys., Paul A. Sweeney, Chief, App. Sec., George Cochran Doub, Asst. Atty. Gen., Morton Hollander, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Millard F. Caldwell, Leo L. Foster, Caldwell, Parker & Foster, Tallahassee, Fla., Hans A. Nathan, Charles M. Trammel, Washington, D. C., for appellee.

R. Emmett Kerrigan, New Orleans, La., Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles, New Orleans, La., of counsel, amicus curiae, for Peerless Ins. Co.

Before CAMERON, JONES and BROWN, Circuit Judges.


JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge.

Despite its 528 pages of printed record, exhibits numbering in the hundreds of pages, the complaints, cross claims, counterclaims, extensive pre-trial discovery proceedings, motions for summary judgment, truncated presentation of evidence, and the large dollar amounts at stake, this is a very simple case.

The Government was the Lessor of portions of Wainwright Shipyard at Panama City, Florida to Seaboard Machinery Corporation...

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