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THOMPSON v. AMERICAN AIRLINES, INC.

No. 28142 Summary Calendar.

422 F.2d 350 (1970)

J. L. THOMPSON, Plaintiff, v. AMERICAN AIRLINES, INC., Defendant-Third-Party Plaintiff, v. The STATE NATIONAL BANK OF EL PASO, Third-Party Defendant, Ralph SWAFFORD, Third-Party Defendant-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Fourth-Party Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

February 4, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herbert Ehrlich, El Paso, Tex., for appellant.

Seagel V. Wheatley, U. S. Atty., San Antonio, Tex., Johnnie M. Walters, Asst. Atty. Gen., Lee A. Jackson, Crombie J. D. Garrett, John A. Townsend, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for appellee, Haskell Shelton, Asst. U. S. Atty., of counsel.

Before JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge, and MORGAN and CLARK, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

A suit by the named consignee of a shipment of $18,000 worth of silver coins sued the common air carrier for non-delivery. The carrier as a third-party plaintiff (F.R.Civ.P. 14(a)) impleaded a bank and an individual (Swafford) since it then seemed clear that Swafford got the coins. As a third-party defendant he then became a fourth-party plaintiff in his attempted impleader of the United States, whose revenue...

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