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DISCONTO-GESELLSCHAFT v. U.S. STEEL CORP.

Nos. 676 and 677.

267 U.S. 22 (1925)

DIRECTION DER DISCONTO-GESELLSCHAFT v. UNITED STATES STEEL CORPORATION, PUBLIC TRUSTEE, EGREMONT JOHN MILLS, ET AL. BANK FUR HANDEL UND INDUSTRIE v. UNITED STATES STEEL CORPORATION, PUBLIC TRUSTEE, ENGLISH ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN BOND AND SHAREHOLDERS, LTD., ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 26, 1925.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John Weld Peck and Mr. John Wilson Brown, III, with whom Mr. Alfred K. Nippert was on the briefs, for appellants.

Mr. Wm. Averell Brown, with whom Mr. Kenneth B. Halstead was on the brief, for United States Steel Corporation.

Mr. Frederick R. Coudert, with whom Mr. Howard Thayer Kingsbury and Mr. Mahlon B. Doing were on the brief, for Public Trustee.

MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the Court.

These are bills in equity in similar form each raising the same question. In each the plaintiff is a German corporation and the interested defendants are the Public Trustee, an English corporation sole appointed to be custodian of enemy property during the late war, and the United States Steel Corporation. Each plaintiff claims one hundred identified shares in the Steel...

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