DE VEGVAR v. GILLILLAND

No. 12791.

228 F.2d 640 (1955)

Edith Neuman DE VEGVAR, Appellant, v. Whitney GILLILLAND, Pearl Carter Pace, and Henry J. Clay, Constituting the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of the United States, and George M. Humphrey as Secretary of the Treasury of the United States of America, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided December 22, 1955.

Writ of Certiorari Denied March 26, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Ernest Angell, New York City, of the bar of the Court of Appeals of New York, pro hac vice, by special leave of Court, with whom Mr. Percy A. Shay, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. Samuel D. Slade, Atty., Dept. of Justice, with whom Mr. Leo A. Rover, U. S. Atty., was on the brief, for appellee. Messrs. Edward H. Hickey and William P. Arnold, Attys., Dept. of Justice, and Lewis Carroll and Rufus E. Stetson, Jr., Assts. U. S. Attys., also entered appearances for appellee.

Messrs. Philip Levy, Joseph W. Wyatt, Robert T. Reynolds, Washington, D. C., and Samuel A. McCain, New York City, filed a brief on behalf of Victor K. Anninger; Steven Ausnit; Walter Petschek; Socony Mobil Oil Company, Inc.; Karel Charles Stiassni; and Francis Price, Jr. and Dennis G. Karzag, Executors of the Estate of William Zimdin, as amici curiae, urging affirmance.

Before EDGERTON, Chief Judge, and WILBUR K. MILLER and WASHINGTON, Circuit Judges.


Writ of Certiorari Denied March 26, 1956. See 76 S.Ct. 543.

WASHINGTON, Circuit Judge.

Mrs. de Vegvar brought suit in the District Court against the members of the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission, seeking to compel reconsideration of a decision of the Commission denying her claim to a share in the fund administered by that body known as the Yugoslav Claims Fund. The Secretary of the Treasury was also made a party...

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