Legal Opinion
United States v. Silliman
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided March 25, 1948No. 9492PublishedCited by 101 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GOODRICH, Circuit Judge.
The United States brought an action against the defendant, Reuben D. Silliman, an attorney, to recover against him for his alleged participation in a plan to deceive officers of the United States so that they would return to another alleged participant in the plan, one Hackfeld, property which had been taken over from Hackfeld by the Alien Property Custodian in World War I. Hackfeld, a native German, had lived in Hawaii and made a fortune there. He was in Germany at the time the European war broke out in 1914 and upon the entrance of the United States into the war his…
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