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UNITED STATES v. KLEIN

No. 439.

303 U.S. 276 (1938)

UNITED STATES v. KLEIN, ESCHEATOR OF PENNSYLVANIA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 28, 1938.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Assistant Attorney General Whitaker, with whom Solicitor General Reed, Assistant Solicitor General Bell, and Messrs. Paul A. Sweeney, and Henry A. Julicher were on the brief, for the United States.

Mr. A. Jere Creskoff, with whom Mr. Albert H. Ladner, Jr. was on the brief, for appellee.

MR. JUSTICE STONE delivered the opinion of the Court.

The question for decision is whether statutes of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Purdon's Penn. Statutes, Tit. 27, §§ 41, 45, 282, 334, are unconstitutional because they authorize interference with a federal court and an invasion of the sovereignty of the United States, in so far as they purport to confer jurisdiction on a state tribunal to declare the escheat of moneys deposited in the registry of...

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