Marine Ins. v. McLanahan

WADDILL, Circuit Judge.

This is an equity cause, instituted by appellees against the appellants in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, involving the right to certain moneys now in the hands of the appellee the Equitable Trust Company, as trustee, arising from funds paid by the insurance underwriters upon the steamship Augusta by reason of the sinking of the barge Detroit. A brief summary of the facts in the case is necessary to a correct understanding of the issues:

The West India Sugar Corporation, of which appellee J. Craig MeLanahan is ancillary receiver, duly…