CHEMICAL BANK N. Y. TRUST CO. v. STEAMSHIP WESTHAMPTON

Adm. No. 4451.

268 F.Supp. 169 (1967)

CHEMICAL BANK NEW YORK TRUST COMPANY, Trustee, Mortgagee v. STEAMSHIP WESTHAMPTON. Application of the UNITED STATES to Intervene and to Assert a Claim of Forfeiture against the Proceeds of Sale.

United States District Court D. Maryland.

May 10, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anthony W. Gross, Atty., Admiralty & Shipping Section, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., and Thomas J. Kenney, U. S. Atty., Baltimore, Md., for the United States.

Sol C. Berenholtz, Baltimore, Md. (Solomon Kaplan, advocate), Baltimore, Md., for Trustees of Seafarers Vacation Plan.

Semmes, Bowen & Semmes, Baltimore, Md. (David R. Owen and William R. Dorsey, III, Baltimore, Md., advocates), for Caltex (Overseas) Limited, and others.

John H. Skeen, Jr., Baltimore, Md., for Marine Midland Grace Trust Company, and others.

Webster, Sheffield, Fleischmann, Hitchcock & Brookfield, New York City (Isaac N. P. Stokes, New York City, advocate), and Niles, Barton, Gans & Markell, Baltimore, Md. (Robert H. Williams, Jr., advocate), Baltimore, Md., for Theodore W. Kheel and Raymond J. Scully, Trustees of Seatrade Corp.

Pierson & Pierson, Robert F. Fischer, Thomas B. Eastman, Helen A. Sliwka, Raymond M. Faby, Walter R. Tabler, and William A. Skeen, Baltimore, Md., for various claimants.

William A. Grimes and Ober, Williams & Grimes, Baltimore, Md., for Chemical Bank New York Trust Co., Trustee.


THOMSEN, Chief Judge.

This case is now before the Court on a motion filed by the United States on November 28, 1966, for leave to intervene under Rule 24, F.R.Civ.P., and to file a complaint of information for forfeiture against the proceeds of the sale of the S.S. Westhampton, now in the Registry of this Court. The motion and claim of the United States are opposed by persons holding or claiming liens against the proceeds and by the trustees in bankruptcy of Seatrade...

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