TREADWELL v. PUTMAN

No. 5728.

65 F.2d 604 (1933)

TREADWELL et al. v. PUTMAN.

Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia.

Decided May 15, 1933.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Dickerman Williams and Bethuel M. Webster, Jr., both of New York City, and Richard H. Wilmer and Douglas L. Hatch, both of Washington, D. C., for appellants.

Leo A. Rover, John W. Fihelly, and John J. Wilson, all of Washington, D. C., for appellee.

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


GRONER, Associate Justice.

The parties occupy the same position here as below, and we shall speak of them as plaintiffs and defendant.

Mrs. Emma Treadwell Thacher, the widow of John Boyd Thacher, formerly lived in Albany, N. Y. She died February 18, 1927, leaving a last will dated in 1925, in which she bequeathed to the United States a valuable collection of books, autographs, manuscripts, and documents, then in the possession of the Library of Congress, where...

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