Dollar

This case is here on appeal by the United States from a summary judgment in favor of appellees, defendants below, to the effect that title to the stock of American President Lines is in the defendants. D.C., 100 F.Supp. 881 . The United States has moved for an injunction to preserve the status quo pending appeal.

Briefly stated, the ground of the trial court’s holding is that, by reason of the intervention of government counsel in the suit of Dollar v. Land, the United States is estopped to relitigate the issues determined in that suit by the district and appellate courts of the District of Columbia Circuit. This would seem to be but another way of saying that the judgments there rendered are res judicata as regards the claims of the government. The holding appears at war with the repeated pronouncements of the Supreme Court that the judgments entered in Dollar v. Land would not be res judicata against the United States. Land v. Dollar, 330 U.S. 731, 736, 737, 739 , 67 S.Ct. 1009 , 91 L.Ed. 1209 ; Land v. Dollar, 341 U.S. 737, 739 , 71 S.Ct. 987 , 95 L.Ed. 1331 . That the Supreme Court was not unaware of the intervention of government counsel in those suits is evidenced by the…