Zimmermann v. Sutherland, Alien Property Custodian

Mu. Justice Holmes

delivered the opinion of the Court.

'This is a suit to reach and apply property in the hands of the Alien Property Custodian or the Treasurer of the United States, seized as property of the Wiener BankVerein, as allowed by the amendment of The Trading with the Enemy Act of June 5, 1920, c. 241; 41 Stat. 977. The appellants were the plaintiffs. Before the late war they were depositors in the Wiener Bank-Verein, and on April 6, 1917, had on deposit 2,063,799.03 kronen, The w.ar intervened and after the cessation of hostilities the plaintiffs demanded the amount of said kronen…