SECURITY-FIRST NAT. BANK v. ROGERS

Docket No. L.A. 24527.

51 Cal.2d 24 (1958)

330 P.2d 811

SECURITY-FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF LOS ANGELES (a National Banking Association), as Trustee, etc., Plaintiff and Respondent, v. WILLIAM P. ROGERS, as Attorney General of the United States, etc., Appellant; MARGARET MANN et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

October 24, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dallas S. Townsend, Assistant Attorney General (United States), Director, Office of Alien Property, Laughlin E. Waters, United States Attorney, Arline Martin, Assistant United States Attorney, Mary Eschweiler, Attorney, Office of Alien Property, George B. Searls, Irwin A. Seibel, Paul J. Spielberg, Marbeth A. Miller, Attorneys, Department of Justice, for Appellant.

Brady, Nossaman & Walker, Walter L. Nossaman and Charles M. Walker for Plaintiff and Respondent.

Leonard B. Hirsch, Sollo, Graham & Califf, Morris D. Coppersmith, Hirsch & Rosenblatt, Robert L. Moore, Charles E. Burch, Jr., Fleming, Robbins & Tinsman, Blase A. Bonpane, C.O. Heffernan, Ernest C. Griffith, Oscar W. Fehsel, Elmore A. Gripp, H.A. Gebhardt and Morris Lavine for Defendants and Respondents.


GIBSON, C.J.

Security-First National Bank, as trustee of an inter vivos trust, instituted an action for declaratory and other relief relating to construction of the trust instrument, administration of the trust, and distribution of income and corpus. The problems involved on this appeal arise solely from the attempted seizure by the Attorney General of the United States, as successor to the Alien Property Custodian, of the interests of certain beneficiaries...

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