Valentine v. Gonzalez

The defendant makes this motion to vacate an order of arrest procured against him by the plaintiff. The plaintiff, although a resident of the city of New York, has large property interests in the republic of Costa Rica. The defendant is a resident of the republic of Costa Rica, and on or about the 8th day of May, 1914, he entered upon his term of office as president of that country, and continued in the exercise of his duties until on or about the 27th day of January, 1917, when the Costa Rican minister of war started a revolution and expelled him, since which time he has sojourned in the…