UNITED STATES v. LITTLE JOE TRAWLERS, INC.

No. 85-1228.

780 F.2d 158 (1986)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, Appellee, v. LITTLE JOE TRAWLERS, INC., et al., Defendants, Appellees. Jerry Daughton, et al., Plaintiff, Intervenors, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided January 2, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Walsh with whom Jeffrey A. Breit, and Breit, Rutter & Montagna, Norfolk, Va., were on brief for plaintiff, intervenors, appellants.

John L. Pedrick, Jr., with whom Richard K. Willard, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., and J. Christopher Kohn, Director, Commercial Litigation Branch, Washington, D.C.; William F. Weld, U.S. Atty., and Marianne B. Bowler, Asst. U.S. Atty., Boston, Mass. were on brief for plaintiff, appellee United States of America.

Before BOWNES, TORRUELLA and TIMBERS, Circuit Judges.


TIMBERS, Circuit Judge:

Jerry Daughton et al. ("appellants"), seamen employed by Little Joe Trawler's, Inc. whose in rem action against the F/V Marco Antonio for enforcement of their wage claims was dismissed, appeal from a final decree of foreclosure and order for disbursement entered February 12, 1985 in the District of Massachusetts, John J. McNaught, District Judge. The essential issue presented by this appeal is whether a party (appellants-seamen...

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