Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic v. Cibrario
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Jacques Roberto Cibrario and others, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 14th day of September, 1921, appointing a receiver pendente lite and granting an injunction, as resettled by an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 26th day of September, 1921.
1Opinion of the Court
Dowling, J.:
This action is brought by plaintiff in its alleged capacity of a sovereign State, to compel the defendants to account for moneys which, it is claimed, the defendant Cibrario fraudulently obtained under a contract made by him on July 24, 1918, with the Cinematographic Committee of the Commissariat of Public Instruction, which is alleged to be a subordinate government body of the plaintiff.
There is no dispute as to the making of this contract with the committee. It is in writing, and a translation thereof is annexed to the complaint.
This contract provided for the purchase by the…
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