UNITED STATES v. PINK

No. 42.

315 U.S. 203 (1942)

UNITED STATES v. PINK, SUPERINTENDENT OF INSURANCE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 2, 1942.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Solicitor General Fahy, with whom Assistant Attorney General Shea and Messrs. Melvin H. Siegel, Richard H. Demuth, Paul A. Sweeney, and Oscar H. Davis were on the brief, for the United States.

Mr. Alfred C. Bennett for Louis H. Pink, Superintendent of Insurance of New York, respondent.

Briefs of amici curiae were filed by Messrs. Paul C. Whipp and Lounsbury D. Bates, for the Surviving Directors of First Russian Insurance Co.; by Mr. Carl S. Stern for Victor Yermaloff et al.; by Mr. Borris M. Komar for Brussendorf et al.; by Mr. Albert G. Avery for Frederick H. Cattley et al.; by Messrs. Frederick H. Wood and Albert Ray Connelly for certain receivers; and by Mr. Samson Selig for Andrew Ditmar et al., all urging affirmance.


MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS delivered the opinion of the Court.

This action was brought by the United States to recover the assets of the New York branch of the First Russian Insurance Co. which remained in the hands of respondent after the payment of all domestic creditors. The material allegations of the complaint were, in brief, as follows:

The First Russian Insurance Co., organized under the laws of the former Empire...

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