United States v. Pink

I think the judgment should be affirmed.

As my brethren are content to rest their decision on the authority of the dictum in United States v. Belmont, 301 U. S. 324, without the aid of any pertinent decision of this Court, I think a word should be said of the authority and reasoning of the Belmont case and of the principles which I think are controlling here.

In the Belmont case, the United States brought suit in the federal court to recover a debt alleged to be due upon a deposit account of a Russian national with a New York banker. The complaint set up the confiscation of the account by…