BROWNELL v. LA SALLE STEEL CO.

No. 55 C 263.

140 F.Supp. 353 (1956)

Herbert BROWNELL, Jr., Attorney General of the United States as successor to the Alien Property Custodian, Plaintiff, v. LA SALLE STEEL CO., Defendant.

United States District Court N. D. Illinois, E. D.

February 10, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Tieken, U. S. Atty., Chicago, Ill., Dallas S. Townsend, Asst. Atty. Gen., James D. Hill, Walter T. Nolte and Samuel Z. Gordon, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff.

Defrees, Fiske, O'Brien & Thomson, Chicago, Ill., for defendant.


KNOCH, District Judge.

This matter came on to be heard on plaintiff's motion to strike the two affirmative defenses set forth in defendant's answer as failing to state a legal defense to the claim set forth in plaintiff's complaint.

This action is brought under the Trading with the Enemy Act, 50 U.S.C.A. Appendix, § 1 et seq., to secure a fund of accumulated royalty payments in possession of defendant. In its answer defendant as affirmative defenses states...

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