UNITED STATES v. FARR & COMPANY

No. 129, Docket 29085.

342 F.2d 383 (1965)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. FARR & COMPANY, a Partnership, F. Shelton Farr, William F. Prescott, Lawrence H. Dixon, John Farr, Emmet Whitlock, John C. Buys, Helen G. Downs, Partners, Defendants and Third-Party Plaintiffs-Appellants, Superintendence Co., Inc., Defendants, v. BINGHAM & CO., Inc., Third-Party Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided February 25, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Dickerman Williams, New York City (Baker, Nelson, Williams & Mitchell, New York City, on the brief; Harold d'O. Baker, Robert M. Makla, New York City, of counsel), for Farr & Co., etc., defendants and third-party plaintiffs-appellants.

Roger Hinds, New York City (Frank C. Mebane, Jr., New York City, on the brief), for Bingham & Co., Inc., third-party defendant-appellee.

Before LUMBARD, Chief Judge, and HAYS and MARSHALL, Circuit Judges.


MARSHALL, Circuit Judge:

Suit was commenced by the United States on behalf of the Commodity Credit Corporation [CCC] in the Southern District of New York, jurisdiction being based on 15 U.S.C. § 714b(c), against Farr and Superintendence Co., Inc. The gist of CCC's claim against Farr, the only claim that need concern us here, is that sugar sold by Farr to Societe Generale de Compensation of Paris, France, who then sold it to CCC, contained foreign matter and was...

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