Judge Abraham E. Pinanski yesterday issued a permanent injunction which will restrain the Old Colony Trust Company here from turning over to the Dresden Bank of Germany $3,900 which had been assigned to the Nazis under duress by Sigfried Weil, a refugee from Germany. Weil inherited the money from his uncle, Louis Weil, who came to America and became a baker, and died in Boston in 1937.
Weil was forced under threats of death to make the assignment of the money that he had inherited while in a German concentration camp. Upon arrival in Palestine, he cabled the firm of Wasserman and Wasserman, Boston attorneys, to take up his case. The Dresden bank had already made demands on the Boston bank, but the Old Colony did not hasten to turn over the money Yesterday, when Attorney Leonard Salter of the Wasserman firm appeared before Judge Pinanski’s court, the bank’s attorneys offered no objection to the injunction.
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