Atlantic, Gulf & Pacific S. S. Corp. v. United States

ROSE, Circuit Judge.

The controversy in this case is between the United States, on the one side, and a trustee in bankruptcy, on the other, as to who has the better title to $5,363.36, the proceeds of consumable stores found on board the steamships Liberator and Cape Henry at the time of their arrest by the Marshal, in a possessory suit in which the United States was libelant, and which resulted in the possession of them being adjudged to it.

Originally the ships had been purchased by the bankrupt from the government on the installment plan so to speak; that is to say, a comparatively small…