STANDARD OIL CO. v. CLARK

No. 185, Docket 20406.

163 F.2d 917 (1947)

STANDARD OIL CO. et al. v. CLARK, Atty. Gen.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

September 22, 1947.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Theodore S. Kenyon and John W. Davis, both of New York City (Kenyon & Kenyon, Edgar F. Baumgartner, Ralph M. Carson, Harold W. Bissell, and Taggart Whipple, all of New York City, on the brief), for plaintiffs.

M. S. Isenbergh, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., and James L. Morrisson, Atty., Claims Div., Dept. of Justice, of Washington, D. C. (John F. X. McGohey, U. S. Atty., of New York City, John F. Sonnett, Asst. Atty. Gen., Harry LeRoy Jones, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., John Ward Cutler, Acting Gen. Counsel, and Maximilian Friedmann, Atty., Office of Alien Property, Dept. of Justice, both of Washington, D. C., on the brief), for defendant.

Before CHASE, CLARK, and FRANK, Circuit Judges.


CLARK, Circuit Judge.

This is an action to recover property claimed to have been wrongfully seized and vested in himself by the Alien Property Custodian, brought by four corporations usually referred to as the "Jersey" group. The corporations are the parent holding company, Standard Oil Company (New Jersey), referred to as Standard, and three subsidiaries: Standard Oil Development Company, called Development; Standard Catalytic Company, originally S.I.G. Company,...

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