Sutherland

This was a suit by the Alien Property Custodian and the E. Henry Wemme Company, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the state of Oregon, against the trustees of the E. Henry Wemme Endowment Fund, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the state of Oregon, the E. Henry Wemme Endowment Fund as such corporation, the Attorney General of the state of Oregon, and the district attorney of Multnomah county, state of Oregon, to recover certain propery devised in trust by E. Henry Wemme, deceased, and for an accounting.

E. Henry Wemme died testate at Portland, Or., December 17, 1914. At the time of his death his estate consisted largely of the capital stock of the E. Henry Wemme Company, and of certain real property in the city of Portland. The stock in the corporation was bequeathed to relatives, a majority of whom lived in Germany, and became alien enemies upon our entry into the World War. The real property in Portland, of the value of $350,000, was devised to trustees in trust for the following uses and purposes:

“Sixth: I give, devise and bequeath unto H. A. Weis, Jessie M. Carson and J. J. Cole and their successors, lots 1, 4, 5 and 8 in block 53…