Groupement Financier Liegois v. Cutten

Each of the plaintiffs moves through counsel to stay the trial of this action, it being the position of the moving parties that each plaintiff is a non-resident alien enemy and comes within the purview of subdivision (b) of section 7 of the Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917 (U. S. Code, tit. 50, Appendix, § 7, subd. [b]), and which, so far as here material, reads as follows: “ Nothing in this Act shall be deemed to authorize the prosecution of any suit or action at law or in equity in any court within the United States by an enemy or ally of enemy prior to the end of the war * * *.”

Enemy is…