Legal Opinion
Tabacalera Severiano Jorge, S.A., and Severiano Jorge v. Standard Cigar Company
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided May 23, 1968No. 24320PublishedCited by 64 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TUTTLE, Circuit Judge:
This is an appeal from a judgment by the trial court dismissing a suit by a Cuban corporation and/or its sole stockholder as assignee for the purchase price of approximately $100,000 worth of tobacco sold and delivered to the Standard Cigar Company, of Tampa, Florida, a few months before the Cuban government “intervened” the plaintiff company in Havana. The trial court held that the act of the Cuban government in appointing an “interventor” on September 15, 1960, was “an act of state” which took away from the officers, directors and stockholders, as well as all other…
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