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ESTATE OF WATSON v. BLUMENTHAL

No. 9, Docket 78-6045.

586 F.2d 925 (1978)

ESTATE of Arthur K. WATSON, Ann Hemingway Watson, Helen W. Buckner, Ann C. H. Watson and Jane W. Watson, as Executrices of the Will of Arthur K. Watson, Deceased, Appellees, v. W. Michael BLUMENTHAL, as Secretary of the Treasury, and Hubert J. Hintgen, as Commissioner of the Bureau of the Public Debt, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided October 30, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Naomi Reice Buchwald, Asst. U.S. Atty., New York City (Robert B. Fiske, Jr., U.S. Atty., S. D. N. Y., William G. Ballaine and Louis G. Corsi, Asst. U.S. Attys., New York City, of counsel), for appellants.

John R. Hupper, Cravath, Swaine & Moore, New York City (George J. Gillespie, III, Christine Beshar and Andrew D. Postal, New York City, of counsel), for appellees.

Before OAKES, GURFEIN and MESKILL, Circuit Judges.

OAKES, Circuit Judge:

This appeal, were there subject matter jurisdiction, would involve the very interesting, if not altogether novel, question of the extent of agents' authority under a general power of attorney after their principal becomes fatally comatose as the result of a serious accident. However, in this suit against the Secretary of the Treasury for declaratory and mandamus relief in connection with the redemption of certain United States Treasury bonds...

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