Legal Opinion
New York & Cuba Mail Steamship Co. v. Republic of Korea
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided July 13, 1955PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WEINFELD, District Judge.
On filing this suit in admiralty to recover for damages sustained by libellant’s steamship, process in personam with writ of foreign attachment issued 1 pursuant to which respondent’s funds on deposit in New York banks were attached.
The respondent, Republic of Korea, appearing specially, moves to vacate the attachment and to dismiss the libel on the ground that as a recognized sovereign and independent state it is immune from suit.
The libel alleges that on April 18, 1951 libellant’s ship, The Virginia City Victory, which had unloaded a cargo of rice at the port of…
2Cases cited7 opinions
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- Ex Parte Republic of PeruSupreme Court of the United States · 1943
- National City Bank of NY v. Republic of ChinaSupreme Court of the United States · 1955
- Republic of Mexico v. HoffmanSupreme Court of the United States · 1945
- Berizzi Brothers Co. v. SS PesaroSupreme Court of the United States · 1926
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3Cited by20 opinions
- Victory Transport Incorporated, Owner of the S.S. Hudson v. Comisaria General De Abastecimientos Y Transportes, Voyage Charterer of thes.s. HudsonCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1964
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- United States Ex Rel. Casanova v. FitzpatrickDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1963
- Aerotrade, Inc. v. Republic of HaitiDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1974
- E-Systems, Inc. v. Islamic Republic of IranDistrict Court, N.D. Texas · 1980
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