J. G. Jackson and J. G. Jackson, Jr., Intervenors v. Inland Oil and Transport Co.

RIVES, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from a decree ranking claims against the proceeds derived from the sale by the United States Marshal of the Tug Three Jacks, formerly owned *804by Gulf Transportation Company. Only two claims are now involved. The district court ranked the claim of appellee, Inland, as superior to that of appellants, the Jacksons. Inland had chartered to Gulf, the owner of the Three Jacks, certain oil barges, and had secured a judgment against Gulf.to recover the unpaid charter hire. Gulf had purchased the Three Jacks from the Jacksons and, to secure the unpaid part of the…