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AMERICAN CAN COMPANY v. CITRUS FEED CO.

No. 29651.

436 F.2d 1125 (1971)

AMERICAN CAN COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CITRUS FEED CO. et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied March 4, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas C. MacDonald, Jr., Tampa, Fla., for plaintiff-appellant.

Robert S. Pittman, Bartow, Fla., Rom W. Powell, Winter Park, Fla., Donald E. Wilkes, Daytona Beach, Fla., James M. McEwen of Gibbons, Tucker, McEwen, Smith, Cofer & Taub, Tampa, Fla., for defendant-appellee Citrus Feed Co., A. R. Carver, Lakeland, Fla., of counsel.

Before TUTTLE, DYER and SIMPSON, Circuit Judges.

DYER, Circuit Judge:

From the District Court's order of disqualification of Covington & Burling, a law firm acting as American Can Company's trial counsel in a judgment creditor's suit against Citrus Feed Company and others, American appeals. The disqualification resulted solely because of the Covington firm's relationship with John Allison, an attorney whom American had retained as local counsel in Tampa, Florida. The District Judge applied a "double imputation...

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