Thorsch v. Miller

MARTIN, Chief Justice.

This suit was brought by Hugo Thorseh under section 9 of the Trading with the Enemy Act as amended (42 Stat. 1511), to recover from the Alien Property Custodian the proceeds of certain 3,550 shares of the capital stock of the Wemer-Pfleiderer Company, a Michigan' corporation, which had been seized by the Custodian on March 7,1918, as the'property of Richard and Otto Werner, who were citizens and residents of Germany.

Mr. Thorseh claimed that he was a naturalized citizen of the United States, that he had bought the stock in question from the Werners on March 12, 1917, a…