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BROOKS v. U.S.

No. 87-1594.

833 F.2d 1136 (1987)

William F. BROOKS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant-Appellee, and Antone Construction Co., Inc., a South Carolina corporation; Anthony J. Frank; Fidelity & Deposit Co. of Maryland, a Maryland corporation, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided November 25, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Raymond George Hasley (Mary J. Lynch; Rose, Schmidt, Chapman, Duff & Hasley, Washington, D.C., Lawrence J. Lewis; Vinson, Meek, Lewis & Pettit, Huntington, W.Va., on brief), for plaintiff-appellant.

David I. Pincus, Dept. of Justice (Michael C. Durney, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen.; Michael L. Paup; William S. Estabrook, Washington, D.C., Michael W. Carey, U.S. Atty., Charleston, W. Va., on brief), for defendant-appellee.

Before WIDENER, MURNAGHAN and ERVIN, Circuit Judges.

MURNAGHAN, Circuit Judge:

In the usual stakeholder case, a party with little involvement in the underlying transactions comes to court in search of a Solomonic decision awarding the stake or portions thereof to warring parties to those transactions. Here, however, the claimants had no involvement in the events giving rise to the stake. The stake at issue, totaling over $230,000, is Antone Construction Company's share of the proceeds of a mechanic's lien action in...

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