Legal Opinion
Guaranty Trust Co. v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 25, 1938No. 566PublishedCited by 555 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Stone
The principal questions for decision are whether, in a suit at law brought in a federal district court to recover the deposit of a foreign government with a New York bank, such government is subject to the local statute of limitations as are private litigants; and, if so, whether the assignment of November 16, 1933, by the Russian Soviet Government' to the United States of the right of the former to the bank account restricts op overrides' the operation of the statute of limitations. A subsidiary question is whether in the circumstances of the case the running of the statute of limitations,…
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