BROWNELL v. UNION & NEW HAVEN TRUST CO.


143 Conn. 662 (1956)

HERBERT BROWNELL, JR., ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. THE UNION AND NEW HAVEN TRUST COMPANY, ADMINISTRATOR D.B.N., C.T.A. (ESTATE OF ANNA E. HARTMANN)

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decided July 24, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Myron C. Baum, of the District of Columbia bar, with whom were Henry C. Stone, assistant United States attorney, and, on the brief, Dallas S. Townsend, assistant attorney general, Simon S. Cohen, United States attorney, James D. Hill, of the Iowa bar, George B. Searls, of the District of Columbia bar, and Westley W. Silvian, of the Minnesota bar, for the appellant (plaintiff).

Jeremiah D. Shea, for the appellee (defendant).

BALDWIN, O'SULLIVAN, WYNNE, DALY and COMLEY, JS.


BALDWIN, J.

On January 28, 1952, the plaintiff, attorney general of the United States and successor to the alien property custodian, acting under the authority conferred upon him by an act of Congress known as the Trading with the Enemy Act; 40 Stat. 411, as amended, 50 U.S.C. App. §§1-40 (Sup. 1956); and by presidential executive orders made pursuant thereto, issued an order which purported to vest in himself immediately the interests of certain German...

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