Legal Opinion
M. Salimoff & Co. v. Standard Oil Co.
New York Court of Appeals
Decided July 11, 1933PublishedCited by 74 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Pound, Ch. J.
The Soviet government, by a nationalization decree, confiscated all oil lands in Russia and sold oil extracted therefrom to defendants. The former owners of the property, Russian nationals, join in an equitable action for an accounting on the ground that the confiscatory decrees of the unrecognized Soviet government and the seizure of oil lands thereunder have no other effect in law on the rights of the parties than seizure by bandits. (Luther v. Sagor & Co., [1921] 1 K. B. 456; s. c., 3 K. B. 532; cited in Sokoloff v. National City Bank, 239 N. Y. 158, 164.) The complaints have…
2Cases cited12 opinions
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- Slater v. Mexican National RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1904
- Sokoloff v. National City BankNew York Court of Appeals · 1924
- Petrogradsky Mejdunarodny Kommerchesky Bank v. National City BankNew York Court of Appeals · 1930
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