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WALTER E. HELLER & COMPANY v. M/V MR. ED

No. 8322.

270 F.Supp. 830 (1967)

WALTER E. HELLER & COMPANY, Plaintiff, v. M/V MR. ED, her engines, tackle, furniture, apparel, etc., Defendant.

United States District Court E. D. Louisiana, New Orleans Division.

July 13, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John W. Futrell, New Orleans, La., for plaintiff.

A. D. Freeman, Jr., New Orleans, La., for Delta Marine, Inc.

E. Burt Harris, New Orleans, La., for M & W Marine Ways, Inc.

Leopold Stahl, New Orleans, La., for Diesel Engine Repairs, Inc. and American Marine & Equipment Co., Inc.

Fritz H. Windhorst, New Orleans, La., for Gator Supply Co., Inc.

RUBIN, District Judge.

This case raises the question whether a mortgage on a vessel by a person who is in fact the owner, signed at a time when the vessel is not registered in the owner's name, becomes a preferred ship mortgage if he thereafter registers both the documents of ownership and the mortgage. It arises in the following context.

On June 30, 1966, Walter E. Heller & Company, libelant, filed a libel...

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