Banco Mexicano De Commercio E Industria v. Deutsche Bank

VAN ORSDEL, Associate Justice.

Appellants, plaintiffs below, filed a bill in equity in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia under section 9, subsection (a), of the Act of Congress approved June 5, 1920 (41 Stat. 977), amending the Trading with the Enemy Act of October 6, 1917, 40 Stat. 411. The suit is to recover the sum of $500,000, with interest, from the proceeds of property seized by the Alien Property Custodian.

It is averred that plaintiff bank, for convenience hereafter referred to as the Mexican bank, is a Mexican corporation, with its principal place of business in the city of…