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BANCO DE ESPANA v. FEDERAL RESERVE BANK

Nos. 370-372.

114 F.2d 438 (1940)

BANCO DE ESPANA v. FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF NEW YORK. SAME v. UNITED STATES LINES CO. SAME v. SOLOMON.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

July 8, 1940.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Foster Dulles, of New York City (Sullivan & Cromwell, Inzer B. Wyatt, and Henry P. deVries, all of New York City, on the brief), for plaintiff-appellant.

Henry L. Stimson, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., and Francis M. Shea, Asst. Atty. Gen. (John T. Cahill, U. S. Atty., William L. Lynch, Asst. U. S. Atty., and Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts, all of New York City, and Melvin H. Siegel, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., on the brief), for defendants-respondents.

Before SWAN, CHASE, and CLARK, Circuit Judges.

CLARK, Circuit Judge.

These three appeals, ably briefed and argued, bring before us important and fascinating questions reaching into the realms of international law and polity. The actions here involved all arise from the purchases of about six and a half million dollars' worth of silver made by the United States Secretary of the Treasury in the summer of 1938 from certain persons purporting to act as the government of Spain. Before any payments were made, notice...

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