Legal Opinion
Becker Steel Co. of America v. Cummings
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided April 29, 1936PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
PATTERSON, District Judge.
The suit is brought under the Trading with the Enemy Act, as- amended, 50 U.S. C.A.appendix, § 1 et seq. The motion is by the defendants to dismiss the bill as insufficient on its face.
The controversy is one of long standing. The averments in the bill show this state of affairs: The Alien Property Custodian in 1918 seized property belonging to the plaintiff, a West Virginia corporation controlled wholly by citizens of the United States, and sold the seized property for $20,000. In 1922 the plaintiff brought suit in this court under section 9 (a) of the Trading with…
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