ABRIKOSSOFF v. BROWNELL

Civ. A. No. 145-55.

145 F.Supp. 18 (1956)

Paul ABRIKOSSOFF and Lilian Abrikossoff, Plaintiffs, v. Herbert BROWNELL, Jr., Attorney General of the United States, as Successor to the Alien Property Custodian, and Ivy Baker PRIEST, as Treasurer of the United States, Defendants.

United States District Court District of Columbia, Washington, D. C. Division.

October 12, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Roy Thompson, Jr., Washington, D. C., Kenneth R. McDougall, Palo Alto, Cal., for plaintiff.

Dallas S. Townsend, Asst. Atty. Gen., and James D. Hill, Walter T. Nolte and Samuel Z. Gordon, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for defendants.


MORRIS, District Judge.

Plaintiffs seek to recover certain property vested by the Alien Property Custodian under the Trading with the Enemy Act, as amended,1 and now held by defendants (the Attorney General having succeeded by Executive Order, No. 9788, 50 U.S.C.A.Appendix, § 6 note to the powers and duties of the Alien Property Custodian, and to the properties vested by him). Count I of the complaint invokes the jurisdiction of this...

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