Legal Opinion
Petrogradsky Mejdunarodny Kommerchesky Bank v. National City Bank
New York Court of Appeals
Decided February 11, 1930PublishedCited by 69 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Cardozo, Ch. J.
The plaintiff, a Russian bank, chartered in 1869 by the Imperial Russian Government, has deposit accounts with the defendant, opened in 1911 and 1915, with a balance of $66,749.45 to its credit at the trial.
Following the Soviet revolution of November, 1917, the assets of the bank in Russia were seized by the revolutionary government, and the directors driven into exile. By decrees of the Russian Soviet Republic in 1917, the bank was declared to be merged in the People’s or State Bank, its assets were confiscated, its liabilities canceled, and its shares extinguished, and by a…
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