Legal Opinion
Manas Y Pineiro v. Chase Manhattan Bank, N. A.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided January 24, 1978No. 76 Civ. 2934PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
OWEN, District Judge.
In 1958, defendant Chase Manhattan Bank, through a Cuban branch, issued five certificates of deposit to plaintiff Manas y Pineiro. When plaintiff presented these certificates for payment at defendant’s headquarters in New York City in 1974 the bank refused to honor them, on the ground that plaintiff’s account at the bank’s Cuban branch had been confiscated by the revolutionary Cuban government in 1959, and that the branch bank itself had been nationalized in 1960.
On July 24, 1974, plaintiff commenced this action for payment of the certificates of…
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