Legal Opinion
Guessefeldt v. McGrath
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 28, 1952No. 204PublishedCited by 95 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Frankfurter
This is a case brought under § 9 (a) of the Trading with the Enemy Act, 40 Stat. 411, as amended, 50 U. S. C. App. § 1 et seq.,1 to recover property vested by the Alien Property Custodian. The District Court granted the Government’s motion to dismiss, holding that plaintiff, *310while not “resident within” Germany within the meaning of § 2 of the Act, , and thus “not an enemy” for the purposes of § 9 (a), was precluded from recovering by § 39 which provides that “No property ... of Germany, Japan, or any national of either such country vested in . . . the Government . . . pursuant to the…
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