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BERNSTEIN v. N. V. NEDERLANDSCHE-AMERIKAANSCHE, ETC.

No. 141, Docket 21193.

173 F.2d 71 (1949)

BERNSTEIN v. N. V. NEDERLANDSCHE-AMERIKAANSCHE STOOMVAART-MAATSCHAPPIJ (CHEMICAL BANK & TRUST CO., Third-Party Defendant).

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Supplemental Opinion March 25, 1949.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bennet, House & Couts, of New York City (Victor House, William S. Bennet, Bernard A. Finkel, and Seymour D. Altmark, all of New York City, of counsel), for plaintiff-appellant.

Burlingham, Veeder, Clark & Hupper, of New York City (John L. Galey, Norman M. Barron, and Hervey C. Allen, Jr., all of New York City, of counsel), for Holland-America Line.

Shearman & Sterling & Wright, of New York City (John A. Wilson and M. Van Voorhies, both of New York City, of counsel), for Chemical Bank & Trust Co.

Before AUGUSTUS N. HAND, CLARK, and FRANK, Circuit Judges.

AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff Bernstein who owned all the stock of the Red Star Line, a German limited liability company, brought suit on June 1, 1945, against the Holland-America Line, a Dutch corporation, which owned the S. S. Pennland and the S. S. Westernland and other assets, setting forth that in January, 1937, he was taken forcibly into custody by Nazi officials and imprisoned in jail in Hamburg, Germany...

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