Societe Vinicole De Champagne v. Mumm

If the defendant had wished to challenge Judge Woolsey’s original holding that his name was not “Mumm,” but “Mumm von Schwarzenstein,” the time to do so was when the decree was entered in 1937; it is now too late. Indeed, he does not ask us to unravel what was then done; on the contrary, as we understand it, he rests his case upon his change of name at the time of his naturalization, when apparently by order of the court he became no longer “Mumm von Schwarzenstein,” but merely “Mumm.” The record does not explicitly show that his name was then changed in that way; but we so read his…