FOSHEE v. LLOYDS, NEW YORK

No. 79-3727.

643 F.2d 1162 (1981)

Wheeler G. FOSHEE, Jr., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. LLOYDS, NEW YORK, an unincorporated association, et al., Defendants. LLOYDS, NEW YORK, an unincorporated association and United States of America, Defendants and Plaintiffs in Interpleader-Appellees, v. USS AGRI-CHEMICALS, Division of United States Steel Corporation, Defendants in Interpleader-Appellants, v. CUSTOM FARM SERVICES OF ALABAMA, INC., Etc., et al., Defendants in Interpleader-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

May 1, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hill, Hill, Carter, Franco, Cole & Black, W. Inge Hill, II, Montgomery, Ala., for defendants in interpleader-appellant.

M. Carr Ferguson, Gilbert E. Andrews, U.S. Department of Justice, Tax Division, Washington, D.C., Barry E. Teague, U.S. Atty., Montgomery, Ala., Robert T. Duffy, John A. Dudeck, Jr., Washington, D.C., for United States.

Charles B. Paterson, Montgomery, Ala., for Custom Farm Services of Alabama, Inc.

Marvin Albritton, Andalusia, Ala., for The Commercial Bank of Andalusia.

W. Sidney Fuller, Tipler & Fuller, Andalusia, Ala., and Hobbs, Copeland, Franco & Screws, Albert Copeland, Montgomery, Ala., for Foshee and Foshee.

Before FAY and VANCE, Circuit Judges, and ALLGOOD, District Judge.


VANCE, Circuit Judge:

This is another of the several cases that that have brought the Foshee brothers before this court.1 This latest controversy involves attorneys' fees and priorities of creditors.

The background to this case is stated in our opinion in Foshee v. Lloyds, New York, 619 F.2d 1104 (5th Cir. 1980). A fire destroyed the Foshees' warehouse in which their peanut crop was stored...

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