Richard T. Green Co. v. City of Chelsea

MAHONEY, Circuit Judge.

This case involves conflicting claims to $140,000, part of the compensation deposited in the Registry of the District Court by the United States in connection with the taking of certain parcels of land on the waterfront of Boston Harbor, commonly. known as the Richard T. Green Shipyard, Plant No. 2. Richard T. Green Company, M. Thomas Green, trustee, and the First National Bank of Boston (hereinafter called the “Owners”) have appealed from a decree of the court below awarding the sum in question to the City of Chelsea. The question presented turns on the validity of a…