Escher v. United States

The petition alleges that Jak Eobert Sigg-Fehr (deceased when this action was begun) and two other parties named in the title of the action (all citizens of Switzerland) were •and are the owners of certain property which in the year 1913 was illegally seized by the Alien ProjDerty Custodian of the United States and by him purported to be sold to the Director General of Eailroads of the United States; that this property consisted of certain shares of stock for which the Director General paid the Alien Property Custodian $200 a share, or a total of $2,565,000, as the purported price; that the…