Trinh v. Citibank, N.A.

OPINION

GILMORE, District Judge.

I

This is an action on a debt by which plaintiff seeks the return of deposits made in 1971 by his father into a joint bank account in Citibank, Saigon, Vietnam.

On July 25, 1974, Quang Quy Trinh, plaintiff’s father, opened a “Golden Pass Book Account” at Citibank Saigon, a branch of defendant Citibank, N.A. The account was a joint account in his name and the name of his son, Trinh. The initial deposit was of two million piasters. On October 25, 1974, Trinh’s father made a deposit of one million piasters.

At the time Trinh’s father opened this account, Trinh was a…