Central Union Trust Co. of NY v. Garvan
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT. .The cases are stated in the opinion. It is plain from the. language of the Trading with the Enemy Act — and especially when the words selected are contrasted, sharply with those proposed in the bill as originally introduced in Congress — that the property thereby directed to be transferred to the Alien Property Custodian is enemy property only.
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ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT. .The cases are stated in the opinion. It is plain from the. language of the Trading with the Enemy Act — and especially when the words selected are contrasted, sharply with those proposed in the bill as originally introduced in Congress — that the property thereby directed to be transferred to the Alien Property Custodian is enemy property only. The property which has been libeled is not enemy property but a trust fund, legally established, owned by an American citizen, and held by it primarily, if not wholly, for the benefit of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Holmes
These are libels brought by the Alien Property Custodian under the Trading with the Enemy Act, October 6, 1917, c. 106, § 17, 40 Stat. 411, 425, to obtain possession of securities in the hands of the plaintiffs in error respectively as trustees. The libel in each case alleges that the Alien Property Custodian after investigation determined that a German insurance company, named was an enemy not holding a license from the President, &c.; that certain specified securities belonged to it or were held for its benefit by the party now appearing as a plaintiff in error in that case; and that a…
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