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CENTRAL UNION TRUST CO. v. GARVAN

Nos. 392-396.

254 U.S. 554 (1921)

41 S.Ct. 214

65 L.Ed. 403

CENTRAL UNION TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS TRUSTEE, & c., v. GARVAN, AS ALIEN PROPERTY CUSTODIAN. MERRILL ET AL., INDIVIDUALLY AND AS TRUSTEES, & c., v. SAME. MARSHALL ET AL., AS TRUSTEES, & c., v. SAME. MARSHALL ET AL., AS TRUSTEES, & c., v. SAME. METROPOLITAN TRUST COMPANY OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, TRUSTEE, & c., v. SAME.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 24, 1921.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Perry D. Trafford for plaintiffs in error in Nos. 392 and 393:

Mr. Emory R. Buckner, with whom Mr. Gerard C. Henderson and Mr. H.H. Nordlinger were on the brief, for plaintiffs in error in Nos. 394 and 395:

Mr. Walter F. Taylor for plaintiff in error in No. 396.

Mr. Lucien H. Boggs, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, and Mr. Assistant Attorney General Spellacy, with whom The Solicitor General and Mr. Dean Hill Stanley, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, were on the briefs, for defendant in error:

MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court.

These are libels brought by the Alien Property Custodian under the Trading with the Enemy Act, October 6, 1917, c. 106, § 17, 40 Stat. 411, 425, to obtain possession of securities in the hands of the plaintiffs in error respectively as trustees. The libel in each case alleges that the Alien Property Custodian after investigation determined that a German insurance...

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