FIRST NAT. BANK & T. CO. OF VICKSBURG, MISS. v. THE SENECA

No. 3436.

179 F.Supp. 847 (1960)

FIRST NATIONAL BANK AND TRUST COMPANY OF VICKSBURG, MISSISSIPPI, Libellant v. THE Towboat SENECA, and L. R. Flowers and J. W. Jordan, Jr., as Owners, Respondents, St. Louis Shipbuilding & Steel Company, Intervenors.

United States District Court E. D. Louisiana, New Orleans Division.

January 11, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brunini, Everett, Grantham & Quin, Vicksburg, Miss., Chaffe, McCall, Phillips, Burke & Hopkins, Leon Sarpy, New Orleans, La., proctors for libellant.

Phelps, Dunbar, Marks, Claverie & Sims, George W. Healy, III, New Orleans, La., proctors for intervenors.


J. SKELLY WRIGHT, District Judge.

This case involves the troubled question of attachment of maritime liens. The libellant bank, having had the vessel sold pursuant to its libel to foreclose its preferred maritime mortgage, is faced with a claim against the proceeds by the shipyard intervenor for services rendered the vessel prior to the recordation of the mortgage.1 The precise question presented is whether the rendering of these services...

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