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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

COMMONWEALTH NAT. BANK v. FIDELITY & DEPOSIT CO. OF MARYLAND et al.
    (Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
    December 7, 1909.)
    No. 2,008.
    Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Texas.
    Nelson Phillips and Yancey Lewis, for appellant. A. P. Wozencraft, Joseph A. L. Wolfe, and D. A. Frank, for appellees.
    Before PARDEE, McCORMICK, and SHELBY, Circuit Judges.
   PER CURIAM.

Without committing this court to the propositions that the letter of the Stevenson Contract Company to the disbursing agent constituted, under the evidence, an assignment of the contractor’s claim against the gov- . ernment for the money then due on final estimate, and that as an assignment it was absolutely void or only voidable under sections 3477 and 3737, Rev. St. ' (U. S. Comp. St. 1901, pp. 2320, 2507), we hold that the Circuit Court had jurisdiction, and that the case was well ruled and correctly decided in regard to the equities involved. The decree of the Circuit Court is affirmed.