Smith v. Snyder, Secretary of the Treasury

PRETTYMAN, Circuit Judge.

Appellant Smith brought a civil action against the Secretary of the Treasury, alleging that military officers of the United States in France had seized from him (Smith) personal funds in the amount of thirteen thousand five hundred dollars in hundred-dollar bills and had illegally paid the seized money into the Treasury of the United States. He prayed that the court declare the Secretary to he an involuntary trustee for the fund and, further, that the court order the Secretary to pay the money into the court or to a receiver and ultimately return it to appellant. The…