Northern Trust Co. v. Woodson

VAN ORSDEL, Associate Justice.

This appeal is from a decree; of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia denying appellant’s claim to certain funds in the hands of the Alien Property Custodian and the Treasurer of the United States. The appeal is prosecuted by the administrator of the estate of Robert J. Thompson, deceased, <n iginal plaintiff herein.

It appears that in January, 1918, the Alien Pioporty Custodian seized from Lee Higginson '& Co., of Boston, Mass., Speyer & Co., Kuhn, Loeb & Co., J. & W. Seligmann & Co., and the Guaranty Trust Company, of New York, approximately $5,120,000,…