L. E. Stockdale v. Roy Olson

VOGEL, Circuit Judge.

L. E. Stockdale brought this suit to foreclose a chattel mortgage on personal property, including corn, alleged to be covered by the mortgage and owned by Clifford Ingvall, Pearl Ingvall, John Ingvall and Bonnie Ingvall. Joined as a co-defendant was Roy Olson who claimed to own the corn allegedly covered by the mortgage and the United States of America because its instrumentality, Commodity Credit Corporation, carried a mortgage given by Olson on the corn in question. Jurisdiction of the federal court was based upon the fact that the United States was a party in District…