McGrath Attorney General v. Dravo Corporation

BIGGS, Chief Judge.

This is a suit by the Attorney General of the United States, as successor to the Alien Property Custodian, to recover accrued royalties alleged to have vested in the United States by virtue of Vesting Order Number 201, 8 F.R. 625, 1 issued pursuant to the Trading With the Enemy Act, 40 Stat. 411, as amended, 50 U.S.C.A.Appendix, § 1 et seq.

On May 19, 1937, the defendant, Dravo Corporation, a Pennsylvania corporation, entered into a written contract with Ludwig Kort, a resident of Hanover, Germany, under which Kort, as holder of two United States letters patent for a ship…