United States v. Murray

TRIMBLE, District Judge.

On August 1, 1942, the United States of America, acting through its District Attorney, brought this suit against the defendant, Margarete Asbeck Murray, under and pursuant to section 338 of the Nationality Act of 1940, 54 Stat. 1158, 8 U.S.C.A. § 738, asking the cancellation of her American citizenship, which the sovereign had conferred upon her as matter of grace and not of right.

The defendant is a native of Germany, having been born at Karlsruhe, Baden, in 1909, and she first entered this country as an exchange student. At the expiration of that period, she returned…