City of New Rochelle v. Republic of Ghana

Petitioner, City of New Rochelle, has instituted a proceeding pursuant to title 3 of article 11 of the *774Real Property Tax Law to foreclose certain tax liens on three separate parcels of real property owned, respectively, by the Republics of Ghana, Indonesia and Liberia. The parcels are devoted by these sovereign countries to_ the purposes of maintaining quarters for their principal resident representatives to the United Nations, with the ranks of Ambassador.

The sovereign Nations involved have not appeared generally, but each has separately moved to dismiss the proceeding on the ground that…