UNITED STATES v. SILLIMAN

No. 9492.

167 F.2d 607 (1948)

UNITED STATES v. SILLIMAN.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided March 25, 1948.

Rehearing Denied April 27, 1948.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sherwood E. Silliman, of New York City, and George W. C. McCarter, of Newark, N. J. (William H. Campbell, Jr., and Frederick M. P. Pearse, both of Newark, N. J., Reuben D. Silliman, pro se., and James V. McNamara, of Paterson, N. J., on the brief), for appellant.

Joseph W. Bishop, Jr., and James R. Wollenberg, both of Washington, D. C., (David L. Bazelon, Asst. Atty. Gen., Edgar H. Rossbach, U. S. Atty. for District of New Jersey, and Roger M. Yancey, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Newark, N. J., Max Isenbergh, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., and James L. Morrisson, of Washington, D. C., on the brief), for appellee.

Before GOODRICH, McLAUGHLIN and KALODNER, Circuit Judges.


GOODRICH, Circuit Judge.

The United States brought an action against the defendant, Reuben D. Silliman, an attorney, to recover against him for his alleged participation in a plan to deceive officers of the United States so that they would return to another alleged participant in the plan, one Hackfeld, property which had been taken over from Hackfeld by the Alien Property Custodian in World War I. Hackfeld, a native German, had lived in Hawaii and made a fortune...

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