Von Hennig v. Kennedy

The plaintiff executor of Carlo von Wedekind has appealed from a judgment of the District Court dismissing on the merits an action to recover certain property vested by the Alien Property Custodian on the ground that plaintiff’s decedent was not authorized by Section 9 (a) of the Trading with' the Enemy Act of 1917, 40 Stat. 419, as amended, 50 U.S.C.A.Appendix, § 9(a), to claim the vested property because he was resident outside the United States (in Switzerland) and doing business in Italy during the war years, and was an “enemy” as defined in Section 2(a) of the Act, 50 U.S.C.A.Appendix, §…