Clinton Trust Co. v. Compania Azucarera Central Mabay S. A.

This is an application to direct the Chase National Bank and the Royal Bank of Canada to answer certain questions in respect to the existence and status of deposit accounts of the defendants with their branch banks in Havana, Cuba. The questions have been propounded in the course of an examination of these banks directed by the court to be had in aid of an attachment under article 55 of the Civil Practice Act, and the banks have refused to answer on the ground that the plaintiff’s attachment, served upon them in New York, does not reach property in Cuba, and it is, therefore, immaterial as to…