United States v. Lindsay

WOODBURY, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered on motion dismissing an action brought by the United States on a claim of its wholly-owned agency, Commodity Credit Corporation (chartered by Congress June 29, 1948, 62 Stat. 1070, 15 U.S.C.A. § 714 et seq.), to recover from a wool handler named Lindsay, his sureties, and Draper and Company, Inc., a warehouseman, for damage to wool owned by Commodity and stored while under Lindsay’s control in Draper’s warehouse.

It is alleged in the complaint that the agency named above is the “successor in interest” of another wholly…