RIGGS v. DEL DRAGO

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John W. Davis, with whom Mr. Otis T. Bradley was on the brief, for petitioner.

Mr. Henry Cohen, with whom Mr. Ludwig M. Wilson was on the brief, for Giovanni del Drago et al.; Mr. Anthony J. Caputo submitted for Byron Clark, Jr., Executor; and Mr. Harold W. Hastings submitted for Harold W. Hastings, Special Guardian, — respondents.

Briefs of amici curiae were filed by Solicitor General Fahy, Assistant Attorney General Clark, and Messrs. Sewall Key, Arnold Raum, and Valentine Brookes on behalf of the United States; by Messrs. John J. Bennett, Jr., Attorney General of the State of New York, and Henry Epstein, Solicitor General, on behalf of that State (with the States of Florida, Vermont, Georgia, Arkansas, New Mexico, and Michigan, by their respective Attorneys General, joining in the brief); by Messrs. Harrison Tweed and Weston Vernon, Jr.; and by Mr. George Gray Zabriskie on behalf of Arnold Wood, Jr., — all in support of petitioner.

Mr. Bethuel M. Webster filed a brief on behalf of Mary Ann Blumenthal, as amicus curiae, urging affirmance.