ST. LOUIS UNION TRUST CO. v. HERF

No. 41735.

235 S.W.2d 241 (1951)

ST. LOUIS UNION TRUST CO. v. HERF et al.

Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 1.

January 8, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold I. Baynton, Asst. Atty. Gen., Director, Office of Alien Property, Drake Watson, U. S. Atty., of St. Louis, George B. Seals, Joseph Laufer, and Robert B. McKay, Department of Justice, all of Washington, D.C., and Ralph S. Spritzer, of Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Orr, Pflager, Foulis & Andreas, St. Louis, for respondent, St. Louis Union Trust Co.

Jacob M. Lashly, Paul B. Rava, and Lashly, Lashly & Miller, all of St. Louis, for respondents Fred S. Hamilton; Doris Herf; Bertha Herf, by C. Staehelin, her guardian; C. Otto Boelitz Herf; Hella Hessel and Sigrid Hessel.


HOLLINGSWORTH, Judge.

This action was brought by St. Louis Union Trust Company for construction of a trust indenture in which it was trustee, and for directions as to distribution of the corpus and certain accumulated income of the trust estate. Two of the named beneficiaries were German nationals residing in Germany, and the Attorney General, as successor to their interests under the Trading with the Enemy Act, was included as a defendant. The amount in dispute exceeds...

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