Wally Kelberine v. Societe Internationale, Etc., Interhandel, Etc.

PRETTYMAN, Senior Circuit Judge.

This law suit has an antecedent history. In years prior to World War II the appellee Societe Internationale, Etc., 1 a Swiss holding corporation, came into' ownership of various American properties, including over 90 per cent of the stock of General Aniline and Film Corporation, a Delaware corporation. In 1942 this stock was vested in the Alien Property Custodian, succeeded by the Attorney General of the United States, under the Trading With the Enemy Act. 2 When the war was over, Interhandel in 1948 sued under Section 9(a) of the Act to recover the property.…