Z. & F. ASSETS CORP. v. HULL

No. 381.

311 U.S. 470 (1941)

61 S.Ct. 351

85 L.Ed. 288

Z. & F. ASSETS REALIZATION CORP. v. HULL, SECRETARY OF STATE, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 6, 1941.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Joseph M. Proskauer, with whom Messrs. Frank Roberson, John F. Condon, Jr., and John Bassett Moore were on the brief, for Z. & F. Assets Realization Corp., petitioner in No. 381.

Mr. Fred K. Nielsen for American-Hawaiian Steamship Company, petitioner in No. 382.

Solicitor General Biddle, with whom Assistant Attorney General Shea, and Messrs. Melvin H. Siegel and Francis J. McNamara were on the brief, for Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, and Henry Morgenthau, Secretary of the Treasury, respondents.

Mr. William D. Mitchell, with whom Messrs. Frederic R. Coudert, Lester H. Woolsey, Amos J. Peaslee, and John J. McCloy were on the brief, for Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, intervener-respondent.


MR. CHIEF JUSTICE HUGHES delivered the opinion of the Court.

Petitioners, Z. & F. Assets Realization Corporation and American-Hawaiian Steamship Company, are holders of awards of the Mixed Claims Commission, United States and Germany. These awards have been certified by the Secretary of State and are thus payable out of the fund established by the Settlement of War Claims Act of 1928.1 Petitioners...

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