FARBWERKE v. CHEMICAL FOUNDATION

Nos. 179, 180, 181, 182, 271, 272, 273, and 274.

283 U.S. 152 (1931)

FARBWERKE VORMALS MEISTER LUCIUS & BRUNING ET AL. v. CHEMICAL FOUNDATION, INCORPORATED, ET AL. FARBWERKE VORMALS MEISTER LUCIUS & BRUNING v. E.I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS & COMPANY ET AL. DEUTSCHE GOLD & SILBER SCHEIDE ANSTALT v. SAME. BADISCHE-ANILIN & SODA FABRIK v. SAME. WOODS, TREASURER OF THE UNITED STATES, v. CHEMICAL FOUNDATION, INCORPORATED, ET AL. SUTHERLAND, ALIEN PROPERTY CUSTODIAN, v. FARBWERKE VORMALS MEISTER LUCIUS & BRUNING ET AL. SAME v. DEUTSCHE GOLD & SILBER SCHEIDE ANSTALT ET AL. SAME v. BADISCHE-ANILIN & SODA FABRIK.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 13, 1931.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Frederick H. Wood, with whom Messrs. Bruce Bromley and Charles F. Curley were on the brief, for Farbwerke.

Mr. Almuth C. Vandiver for Badische-Anilin & Soda-Fabrik and Deutsche Gold & Silber Scheide Anstalt.

Mr. G. Carroll Todd, with whom Mr. W.S. Gregg was on the brief, for E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company.

Mr. Joseph H. Choate, Jr., with whom Messrs. Wm. G. Mahaffy, Seiforde M. Stellwagen, and James Garretson were on the brief, for The Chemical Foundation, Incorporated.

Solicitor General Thacher and Messrs. Thomas E. Rhodes, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, and J. Frank Staley submitted the cause for Woods, Treasurer, and Sutherland, Alien Property Custodian.


MR. JUSTICE McREYNOLDS delivered the opinion of the Court.

The writs in the eight above-entitled causes were granted upon the petitions of parties to four suits instituted to recover compensation for use by E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co. of three patents, formerly owned by three of them (the German corporations), under licenses issued as provided by the Trading with the Enemy Act, approved October 6, 1917. 40 Stat. 411, 420, 421, 459, 460, 1020, 1021.

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