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...
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