Legal Opinion
Perez v. Chase Manhattan Bank
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided May 5, 1983PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Milonas, J.
In 1958 during the final months of the Batista regime, plaintiff-appellant, a Cuban citizen, at various times obtained five certificates of deposit, totaling $227,336.47, from defendant-respondent Chase Manhattan Bank’s Mar*403ianao branch in Havana.* The forces of Fidel Castro assumed control of the Cuban government on January 1, 1959, and plaintiff’s husband, who had been Batista’s Minister of Communications, fled to Colombia in March of 1959. Plaintiff later joined her husband in Colombia, but she then returned to Cuba, where she remained for a number of months.…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Banco Nacional De Cuba v. SabbatinoSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Alfred Dunhill of London, Inc. v. Republic of CubaSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Underhill v. HernandezSupreme Court of the United States · 1897
- Ohio v. HelveringSupreme Court of the United States · 1934
- First National City Bank v. Banco Nacional De CubaSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
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3Cited by2 opinions
- National Union Fire Insurance v. Proskauer Rose Goetz & MendelsohnNew York Supreme Court · 1994
- Perez v. Chase Manhattan Bank, N. A.New York Court of Appeals · 1984