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DE LA METTRIE v. JAMES

Nos. 54, 55.

272 U.S. 731 (1927)

47 S.Ct. 264

71 L.Ed. 496

DE LA METTRIE ET AL. v. DE GASQUET JAMES ET AL. KEANE, RECEIVER, v. DE GASQUET JAMES ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 3, 1927.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. J. Noble Hayes, with whom Mr. Guy H. Johnson was on the brief, for the appellants.

Mr. Mansfield Ferry, with whom Messrs. Frank Davis, Jr., S.M. Stellwagen, William J. Neale, and Victor Hugo Duras were on the brief, for the appellee James.

Solicitor General Mitchell for Sutherland, Alien Property Custodian, submitted. Assistant Attorney General Letts and Mr. Dean Hill Stanley, Special Assistants to the Attorney General, were also on the brief.

MR. JUSTICE McREYNOLDS delivered the opinion of the Court.

The challenged decrees were entered March 2, 1925, 6 Fed. (2d) 479. Both causes had been heard upon a single record.

In No. 54, appellants, citizens of France, sought to recover from the Alien Property Custodian certain funds seized by him November 5, 1918, as the property of an alien enemy. They relied upon § 9, Trading with the Enemy Act, as amended June 5, 1920, c. 241, 41 Stat. 977. The court...

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