AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN AGENCIES v. GILLILLAND

No. 13447.

247 F.2d 95 (1957)

AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN AGENCIES, Inc., A New York Corporation, Appellant, v. Whitney GILLILLAND, et al., constituting the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of the United States, and George M. Humphrey, as Secretary of the Treasury, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided June 27, 1957.

Writ of Certiorari Denied November 25, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Mr. B. Jenkins Middleton, Atty., Dept. of Justice, with whom George Cochran Doub, Asst. Atty. Gen., Messrs. Oliver Gasch, U. S. Atty., and Samuel D. Slade, Atty., Dept. of Justice, were on the brief, for appellees.

Mr. Lewis Carroll, Asst. U. S. Atty., also entered an appearance for appellees.

Messrs. Philip Levy and Paul M. Rhodes, Washington, D. C., filed a brief on behalf of Steven Ausnit et al., as amici curiae urging affirmance.

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


Writ of Certiorari Denied November 25, 1957. See 78 S.Ct. 152.

WASHINGTON, Circuit Judge.

The complaint in this case is essentially similar to that in de Vegvar v. Gillilland, 1955, 97 U.S.App.D.C. 126, 228 F.2d 640, certiorari denied 1956, 350 U.S. 994, 76 S.Ct. 543, 100 L.Ed. 859, and concludes with a prayer that the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission's award to the plaintiff (which was much smaller than desired) be set...

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