Providence Engineering Corp. v. Downey Shipbuilding Corp.

(after stating the facts as above). The questions which are involved herein arc three:(1) Whether the United States is the real party in interest under the mortgages in the name of the Fleet Corporation.(2) Whether the United States is an indispensable party to the suit.(3) Whether the Fleet Corporation is estopped from asserting that the liens of the mortgages standing in its name are prior to the lien held by the plaintiff.

In considering these questions it becomes important to fix the status of the Fleet Corporation.

It appears that the Act of Congress of September 7, 1916, known as the…