Uthes v. Brownell

MODARELLI, District Judge.

Plaintiff, resident of the United States, is suing the Attorney General of the United States for recovery of property vested under the Trading with the Enemy Act, as amended, 50 U.S.C.A.Appendix § 1-40, hereinafter referred to as the Act. She has demanded a trial by jury. Defendant moves to strike this request.

The Alien Property Custodian on October 14, 1946, having ruled that *564plaintiff was a “national of a designated enemy country, Germany” within the meaning of the Act, issued a vesting order that all of plaintiff’s interest in the estate of her deceased husband…