Synthetic Patents Co. v. Sutherland

MANTON, Circuit Judge.

This is a suit brought by the appellee under the provisions of section 9 of the Trading with the Enemy Act, as amended by Act June 5,1920 (Comp. St. § Sllo^e). Duisberg, Hess, and Mann were nonresident German nationals, and owned all the capital stock of the appellee, as well as that of the Bayer Company, an American corporation. On January 15, 1918, the stock of both companies was seized by the Alien Property Custodian. It, together with the rights accruing under the terms of contracts made between Duisberg, Hess, and Mann and the appellee, were sold on December 12,…