KAUFMAN v. BROWNELL

Nos. 13822, 13823.

247 F.2d 553 (1957)

Eric G. KAUFMAN et al., Appellants, v. Herbert BROWNELL, Jr., Attorney General of the United States, et al., Appellees. Ernest ATTENHOFER et al., Appellants, v. Herbert BROWNELL, Jr., Attorney General of the United States, et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided June 20, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Robert E. Sher, Washington, D. C., with whom Messrs. Isadore G. Alk and James H. Heller, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellants in No. 13822.

Mr. Edmund L. Jones, Washington, D. C., with whom Mr. C. Frank Reifsnyder, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellants in No. 13823.

Mr. David Schwartz, Atty. Dept. of Justice, with whom Messrs. George B. Searls, Paul E. McGraw, Sidney B. Jacoby and Ernest S. Carsten, Attys., Dept. of Justice, were on the brief, for appellees.

Before WILBUR K. MILLER, FAHY and DANAHER, Circuit Judges.


DANAHER, Circuit Judge.

These are consolidated appeals lodged by two groups of intervenors in the corporate action commenced in 1948 by Societe Internationale, a Swiss corporation, formerly called I. G. Chemie, but now commonly known as Interhandel. Commencing in February 1942, the Attorney General or his predecessors issued a series of vesting orders by which, under the Trading with the Enemy Act,1 the Government had seized some 93% of...

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