Lederer v. Kahn

Defendant seeks to enjoin any and all proceedings on behalf of plaintiff by his attorneys until after cessation of the present world-wide hostilities, on the ground that he is an enemy alien within the purview of the Trading with the Enemy Act (U. S. Code, tit. 50, Appendix, § 1 et seq). The motion is denied as hereinafter indicated.

Plaintiff, a Haitian national, when last heard from was a resident of the city of Shanghai, China, where he had been acting for some time past as the accredited representative of the Republic of Haiti in the capacity of Consul General to that city. Through his…