Rabinovitch v. Auerbach

The plaintiff and the defendant are now both residents of California and according to the affidavits on the present motion have been such residents for many years. The action is brought upon a contract alleged in the complaint to have been made in Paris in 1937, between the plaintiff and one Pressburger, on the one hand, and with the defendant acting on his own behalf and on behalf of Elekta-Film, A. G., a corporation of Czechoslovakia, controlled by the defendant (referred to herein as Elekta) on the other. The plaintiff and Pressburger were at the time the sole shareholders of a German…