MANUFACTURERS TRUST COMPANY v. ROGERS


181 F.Supp. 116 (1960)

MANUFACTURERS TRUST COMPANY, individually and as Trustee for American Creditor Banks under German-American Standstill Agreements, French American Banking Corporation, Guaranty Trust Company, City Bank Farmers Trust Company and Bankers Trust Company, Plaintiffs, v. William P. ROGERS, Attorney General of the United States, Defendant.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

February 15, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

White & Case for plaintiffs, A. Hayne deYampert, New York City, of counsel.

Dallas S. Townsend, Asst. Atty. Gen., Director, Office of Alien Property, S. Hazard Gillespie, Jr., U. S. Atty., Southern Dist. of New York, New York City, Irving Jaffe, Max Wilfand, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for defendant.


IRVING R. KAUFMAN, District Judge.

This is an action brought pursuant to Section 9(a) of the Trading with the Enemy Act1 seeking the return in whole or in part of two accounts in the Manufacturers Trust Company (hereinafter the "Trust Company") aggregating $328,653.20 vested (i. e. seized)2 by the Attorney General3 in 1947 as property of an enemy, the German Reichsbank.

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