SUTHERLAND v. BEHN, MEYER & CO.

Nos. 4760, 4761.

33 F.2d 643 (1929)

SUTHERLAND, Alien Property Custodian, et al. v. BEHN, MEYER & CO., Limited. BEHN, MEYER & CO., Limited, v. SUTHERLAND, Alien Property Custodian, et al.

Court of Appeals of District of Columbia.

Decided June 3, 1929.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thos. E. Rhodes, of Washington, D. C., for appellants.

Walter Bruce Howe and Chas. H. Bradley, both of Washington, D. C., and William D. Guthrie and Bernard Hershkopf, both of New York City, for appellee.

Before MARTIN, Chief Justice, and ROBB and VAN ORSDEL, Associate Justices.


MARTIN, Chief Justice.

These cases were brought in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia under section 9 of the Trading with the Enemy Act (50 USCA Appendix § 9), to recover property seized by the Alien Property Custodian. They were tried together in the lower court, and appeals were taken in both cases.

It appears that Behn, Meyer & Co., Limited, is a corporation organized in the year 1905 under the laws of the Straits Settlements, a British...

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