ROGERS v. ERCONA CAMERA CORPORATION

No. 14856.

277 F.2d 94 (1960)

William P. ROGERS, Attorney General of United States, Robert B. Anderson, Secretary of Treasury, and Ralph Kelly, Commissioner of Customs, Appellants, v. ERCONA CAMERA CORPORATION and Steelmasters, Incorporated, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided March 17, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Irving Jaffe, Atty., Dept. of Justice, for appellants. Messrs. George B. Searls and Irwin A. Seibel, Attys., Dept. of Justice, were on the brief for appellants. Mr. Walter T. Nolte, Atty., Dept. of Justice, also entered an appearance for appellants.

Mr. Harry I. Rand, Washington, D. C., for appellees.

Before PRETTYMAN, Chief Judge, and WASHINGTON and BASTIAN, Circuit Judges.


WASHINGTON, Circuit Judge.

This suit was instituted in the District Court by the appellees, Steelmasters and Ercona, against three Government officials, appellants here. It prayed for a declaratory judgment that the Attorney General acquired no rights of ownership in the German trademark "Zeiss" as a result of various purported seizures under Section 7(c) of the Trading With the Enemy Act, 40 Stat. 416 (1917), as amended, 50 U.S.C.A.Appendix, § 7(c) and for an...

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