Hannes v. Kingdom of Roumania Monopolies Institute
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the CourtCallahan, J.
This appeal involves a claim of immunity from suit made by a foreign sovereign. It presents three important questions. The first is whether such a claim of sovereign immunity will prevail in behalf of a corporation wholly owned and operated by a foreign government; the second is whether the property attached herein is immune from attachment because it is the property of the foreign sovereign; and the third question is whether there was an effective waiver of immunity or consent to suit by the foreign government. While to some extent interrelated, we think that these questions may be…
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