Escher v. Woods

This is a suit by citizens of Switzerland to recover property mistakenly seized during the late war as belonging to an alien enemy. The plaintiffs recovered, but on a statement of account by the Alien Property Custodian he claimed a deduction of $55,909.83 for administrative expenses, “ said sum having been paid by [him] into a fund maintained by him, out of which the expenses incurred in administering money and other property seized by the Alien Property Custodian, are paid.” On a rule' to show cause the claim was disallowed by the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, but the decision…