GMO. NIEHAUS & CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 501-56.

153 F.Supp. 428 (1957)

GMO. NIEHAUS & CO., C. por A., a corporation organized under the laws of Costa Rica, Apartado 493 San Jose, Costa Rica, and Imke Steinhoff, Kurt Niehaus, Gertrude Boese, Franz Laue and Horst Laue, sometimes incorrectly designated as Franz Boese and Horst Boese, all c/o Dr. Hans Loening, Soegestrasse 18/20 Bremen, Germany v. The UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Claims.

July 12, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip W. Amram, Washington, D. C., for plaintiffs. Lawrence A. Knapp, Washington, D. C., was on the briefs.

Morton Weinstein, Washington, D. C., with whom was Asst. Atty. Gen. George Cochran Doub, for defendant. Francis J. Steiner, Jr., Nashville, Tenn., was on the brief.

Before JONES, Chief Judge, and LITTLETON, WHITAKER, MADDEN and LARAMORE, Judges.


MADDEN, Judge.

This is a suit to recover the value of property belonging to the plaintiffs, and taken possession of by the United States by action of the Director, Office of Alien Property, who purported to act under the Trading with the Enemy Act, 50 U.S.C. A.Appendix §§ 1-40.

The corporate plaintiff is a Costa Rican corporation. Three of the natural plaintiffs are citizens of both Germany and Costa...

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