United States ex rel. General Lighterage Co. v. Maryland Casualty Co.

PETERS, District Judge.

This is a suit under the Heard Act (40 U.S.C.A. § 270) brought by the General Lighterage Company in the name of the United States against the Maryland Casualty Company, into which the United States has also come as an intervenor in its own interest, asserting a prior claim on the money involved.

The matter was submitted to the Court without a jury on an agreed statement of facts with some supplementary evidence in the way of letters and the contract in question. From these sources of information it appears that the United States, through an engineer officer, made a…