P. Pastene & Co. v. Irving National Bank

Before this action was begun, plaintiff, in this State, had sued Aristides C. Economopoulos & Co., fruit merchants of Patras, Greece, and had recovered judgment. In that action a warrant of attachment had been issued against a deposit which was then with the Irving National Bank in New York. The warrant had been granted upon allegations that such deposit was the property of Economopoulos. The Irving refused to deliver the fund to plaintiff but, pursuant to instructions received from the Banque D’Economie Nationale, its correspondent in Patras, it transmitted the moneys to London to the credit…