ACHESON v. DROESSE

No. 11004.

197 F.2d 574 (1952)

ACHESON, Secretary of State, v. DROESSE.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided January 10, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph F. Goetten, Washington, D. C., for appellant. George Morris Fay, U. S. Atty. at the time of argument, and Charles M. Irelan, appointed U. S. Atty. subsequent to the argument, Joseph M. Howard and L. Clark Ewing, Asst. U. S. Atty., also entered appearances for appellant.

Raoul Berger, Washington, D. C., for appellee. George F. Shea, Washington, D. C., also entered an appearance for appellee.

Before STEPHENS, Chief Judge, and CLARK and WILBUR K. MILLER, Circuit Judges.


STEPHENS, Chief Justice.

The appellee, Mrs. Clara Raffloer Droesse, was a native-born citizen of the United States. She married — apparently prior to the Act of September 22, 1922, 42 Stat. 1021, Ch. 411 — a German national and thereby lost her citizenship.1 Thereafter, by virtue of her husband's death and the taking of an oath of allegiance to the United States, Mrs. Droesse regained her citizenship under the Act of June...

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