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HICKS v. GUINNESS

Nos. 80 and 81.

269 U.S. 71 (1925)

46 S.Ct. 46

70 L.Ed. 168

HICKS, ALIEN PROPERTY CUSTODIAN, ET AL. v. GUINNESS ET AL. GUINNESS ET AL. v. HICKS, ALIEN PROPERTY CUSTODIAN, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 16, 1925.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Alexander B. Siegel, for petitioners, Benjamin Guinness et al.

Mr. Dean Hill Stanley, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, with whom Mr. Solicitor General Mitchell and Mr. Assistant Attorney General Letts were on the brief, for respondents, Hicks, Alien Property Custodian, and White, Treasurer of the United States.

Mr. Thomas G. Haight, with whom Mr. Amos J. Peaslee was on the brief, for respondents, Carl Joerger et al.

MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the Court.

These are cross petitions based upon a suit brought against the Alien Property Custodian by Guinness and others, doing business under the firm name of Ladenburg, Thalmann & Co., in New York. The facts are not in dispute. A German firm, Joerger and others doing business under the name of Delbruck, Schickler & Co., was indebted to the American firm under an account...

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