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INTERCONTINENTAL HOTELS CORP. v. GOLDEN

15 N.Y.2d 9 (1964)

Intercontinental Hotels Corporation (Puerto Rico), Appellant, v. Jack Golden, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided November 19, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herbert M. Wachtell for appellant.

Stanley L. Gluck for respondent.

Manuel Maxwell, Stanley Diamond and Daniel Schiffman for Hilton Hotels International, Inc., and others, amici curiæ.

Judges DYE, FULD, SCILEPPI and BERGAN concur with Judge BURKE; Chief Judge DESMOND dissents in an opinion in which Judge VAN VOORHIS concurs.

BURKE, J.

On this appeal by the plaintiff from a judgment dismissing the complaint, the only issue is whether the courts of this State must deny access to a party seeking to enforce obligations validly entered into in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and enforcible under Puerto Rican law.

Plaintiff, the owner and operator of a government-licensed gambling casino in Puerto Rico, seeks to recover the sum...

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