General Box Co. v. United States

DAWKINS, Chief Judge.

In these tiwo cases the same plaintiff ■sues, in the first, the United States and Pioneer Contracting Co., Inc. (called Pioneer), and in the second, the Government alone, for the value of timber alleged to have been owned by plaintiff apart from the land and which was destroyed in the process of 'building or repairing levees on the Mississippi River.

In both cases, motions to dismiss, on substantially the same grounds, were filed, save in the first there was the additional contention that the Government could not be joined as a defendant with Pioneer. Thereafter, the…