United States ex rel. Geen v. Fetters

DICKINSON, District Judge.

A preliminary statement of what we understand to be the record status of this case may clear the decks for action and directly present the rulings to be made.' The proceeding concerns one Harry Geen or Green.

The pre-lis situation, so far as concerns us, is that a scheme is averred to have been devised in London, England, to defraud unwitting investors in stocks, and was so fax *638successful as that a large number of people were so defrauded out of sums of money which in the aggregate sound almost fabulous. The money of which these confiding persons were so defrauded was…