J. G. White & Co. v. Ball Engineering Co.

HOUGH, Circuit Judge.

This writ is the latest step in a litigation now 13 years old. It grows out of a seizure by the United States of certain property used in building a lock and dam for the government, and found at the work place when the contractor defaulted, and the engineers in charge annulled his contract. Plaintiffs assert that this *710property was theirs, and was neither owned by the contractor, nor leased to him. Defendants are sued for the conversion of the same, and bring this writ after judgment against them for its value, with 'many years’ interest added. Judgment resulted from the…