Compagnie Internationale De Produits Alimentaires v. Miller

• Decision Date: 05 January 1925
• Docket Number: No. 412,412
• Citation: 45 S.Ct. 169,266 U.S. 473,69 L.Ed. 388
• Parties: COMPAGNIE INTERNATIONALE DE PRODUITS ALIMENTAIRES S. A. v. Thomas W. MILLER, as Alien Property Custodian of the United States of America, and Frank White, as Treasurer of the United States of America
• Court: U.S. Supreme Court

266 U.S. 473

45 S.Ct. 169

69 L.Ed. 388

COMPAGNIE INTERNATIONALE DE PRODUITS ALIMENTAIRES S. A.

v. Thomas W. MILLER, as Alien Property Custodian of the United States of America, and Frank White, as Treasurer of the United States of America.

No. 412.

Supreme Court of the United States

Argued Nov. 25, 1924.

January 5, 1925

Messrs. Challen B. Ellis and Wade H. Ellis, both of Washington, D. C., for appellant,

Mr. Merrill E. Otis, of St. Joseph, Mo., for appellees.

Mr. Justice McREYNOLDS delivered the opinion of the Court.

The court below decided this cause upon authority of its opinion in Behn, Meyer & Co., Limited, v. Thomas W. Miller et al., 296 F. 1002, 54 App. D. C. 255, which upon appeal became No. 343 on our docket, 266 U. S. 457, 45 S. Ct. 165, 69 L. Ed. ——. The decree therein has been reversed for reasons stated in the opinion just announced. The two causes present the same issues. Consequently the challenged decree herein also must be reversed and the cause remanded for further proceedings in conformity with our conclusions.