UNITED STATES v. BANK OF NEW YORK & TRUST CO.


10 F.Supp. 269 (1934)

UNITED STATES v. BANK OF NEW YORK & TRUST CO. SAME v. PRESIDENT AND DIRECTORS OF MANHATTAN CO.

District Court, S. D. New York.

November 28, 1934.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martin Conboy, U. S. Atty., of New York City (Martin Conboy, Francis H. Horan, and Edward J. Ennis, all of New York City, and Paul A. Sweeney, of Washington, D. C., of counsel), for the United States.

Emmet, Marvin & Martin, of New York City (Frederick B. Campbell, Paul C. Whipp, and Lounsbury D. Bates, all of New York City, of counsel), for defendant Bank of New York & Trust Co.

Rumsey & Barker, of New York City (Wendell P. Barker, Robert J. Sykes, and W. C. Morris, all of New York City, of counsel), for defendant President and Directors of Manhattan Co.

Charles B. Alling, Hartwell Cabell, Coudert Bros., John M. Downes, Engelhard, Pollak, Pitcher, Stern & Clarke, Borris M. Komar, Rosenberg, Goldmark & Colin, and Samson Selig, all of New York City, representing various interests, filed briefs amici curiæ in opposition to the motions of the government and in support of the motions of the defendants to dismiss.


COXE, District Judge.

In these suits the United States seeks to establish title to the remaining New York assets of Moscow Fire Insurance Company and Northern Insurance Company, two Russian insurance corporations which were dissolved in 1918 by decrees of the Soviet government. These companies formerly maintained branches in this country, and upwards of eight years ago the New York assets of both companies were taken over by the New York superintendent of insurance...

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