DOERSCHUCK v. MELLON

No. 5402 (Equity No. 50033).

55 F.2d 741 (1931)

DOERSCHUCK et al. v. MELLON, Secretary of the Treasury, et al.

Court of Appeals of District of Columbia.

Decided December 21, 1931.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis Titus, of Washington, D. C., for appellants.

Leo A. Rover and John W. Fihelly, both of Washington, D. C., for appellee, Andrew W. Mellon.

Spier Whitaker, of New York City, and Lawrence A. Baker and Henry Ravenel, both of Washington, D. C., for appellee Z. & F. Corporation.

Before MARTIN, Chief Justice, and ROBB, HITZ, and GRONER, Associate Justices.


GRONER, Associate Justice.

This is an appeal from decrees dismissing on the merits plaintiff's bill of complaint, and also the bill of complaint of a number of interveners asking the same relief. The facts as shown by the bill may be epitomized as follows:

Gustave Doerschuck, a citizen and resident of New York state, purchased in September, 1916, from Zimmerman & Forshay, bankers in New York, a block of German government bonds. (Appellants are his executors...

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