Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit February 13, 1950, 10145_1 (Smith v. Snyder, Secretary of the Treasury)

PRETTYMAN, Circuit Judge.

Appellant Smith brought a civil action against the Secretary of the Treasury, alleging that military officers of the United States in France had seized from him (Smith) personal funds in the amount of thirteen thousand five hundred dollars in hundred-dollar bills and had illegally paid the seized money into the Treasury of the United States.