Weldon v. United States

MORTON, Circuit Judge.

These are cross-appeals from three orders, the first, denying the motion of the United States to implead as defendant the B. A. Carroll Stevedoring Company, Ine.; the second, denying Weldon’s motion to amend his libel by substituting said stevedoring company as libelant; and the third, holding in effect that an offer of proof made by the libelant was insufficient in law to warrant a decree in his favor, and directing that the libel be dismissed. The United States has appealed from the first order and the libelant from the other two orders. The appeal of the United States…