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UNITED STATES v. HEXT

No. 29003.

444 F.2d 804 (1971)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Walter A. HEXT, Sr., et al., Defendants, Harlingen Compress Company et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

June 25, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward R. Finck, Jr., San Antonio, Tex., Nile E. Ball, Darrell B. Hester, Hester & Toscano, Bonner & Ball, Harlingen, Tex., for defendants-appellants.

Rollins M. Koppel, Carter, Stiernberg, Skaggs & Koppel, Harlingen, Tex., for Marshall & Marshall.

Frank C. Brooks, Brooks, Montgomery & Matthews, Dallas, Tex., for amicus curiae Southwestern Compress & Warehouse Assn.

Anthony J. P. Farris, U. S. Atty., Houston, Tex., Alan S. Rosenthal, Alexander P. Humphrey, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Civ. Div., Washington, D. C., James R. Gough, Frank C. Cooksey, Asst. U. S. Attys., Houston, Tex., William D. Ruckelshaus, Asst. Atty. Gen., Wahington, D. C., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before COLEMAN, INGRAHAM and WILKEY, Circuit Judges.

WILKEY, Circuit Judge:

The United States brought suit under the jurisdictional grant of 28 U.S.C. § 1345 alleging conversion of 578 bales of cotton in which it held a security interest. Named as defendants were Walter A. Hext, Sr. (Hext), the grower of the cotton, the W. A. Hext & Sons Gin Co., Inc. (the Gin Co.), a corporation wholly owned by Hext which ginned and marketed the cotton, Harlingen Compress Co. (Harlingen), a warehouse company which stored the...

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