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GT. NORTHERN RY. v. SUTHERLAND

No. 53.

273 U.S. 182 (1927)

GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY ET AL. v. SUTHERLAND, ALIEN PROPERTY CUSTODIAN.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 17, 1927.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Walker D. Hines, with whom Mr. M.L. Countryman was on the brief, for the appellants.

Assistant Attorney General Letts, with whom Mr. Dean Hill Stanley, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, was on the brief, for the appellee.

Mr. Harold W. Bissell filed a brief as amicus curiae, by special leave of Court, on behalf of the Deutsche Bank.

MR. JUSTICE BRANDEIS delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is a suit under § 17 of Trading with the Enemy Act, October 6, 1917, c. 106, 40 Stat. 411, 425, which confers upon the district courts jurisdiction to enter "such orders and decrees, and to issue such process as may be necessary and proper in the premises to enforce the provisions of this Act." It was brought on February 7, 1925, in the federal court for southern...

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