BANCO NACIONAL de CUBA v. FARR


243 F.Supp. 957 (1965)

BANCO NACIONAL de CUBA, Plaintiff, v. F. Shelton FARR, William F. Prescott, Emmet Whitlock, Lawrence H. Dixon, H. Bartow Farr, Elizabeth C. Prescott, Fabio Freyre and Helen G. Downs, co-partners doing business as Farr, Whitlock & Co., Defendants and Third-Party Plaintiffs, v. COMPANIA AZUCARERA VERTIENTES-CAMAGUEY de CUBA and Lehman Brothers, Third-Party Defendants.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

July 30, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rabinowitz & Boudin, New York City, for plaintiff, Victor Rabinowitz, New York City, of counsel.

Baker, Nelson, Williams & Mitchell, New York City, for defendants and third-party plaintiffs, C. Dickerman Williams, New York City, of counsel.

Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett, New York City, for third-party defendants, Whitney North Seymour, Sr., Eastman Birkett, John A. Guzzetta, Gerald M. Levin, Joel S. Hoffman, New York City, of counsel.

Robert M. Morgenthau, U. S. Atty., for United States, amicus curiae, J. William Doolittle, First Asst., Civil Division, Dept. of Justice, Eugene R. Anderson, Asst. U. S. Atty., Southern Dist. of New York, Bruno A. Ristau, Carl F. Goodman, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., of counsel.

Brush & Bloch, New York City, for Cuban cigar manufacturers, amici curiae, Monroe Percy Bloch, Jac M. Wolff, New York City, of counsel.

Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, New York City, for The Chase Manhattan Bank, amicus curiae, A. Donald MacKinnon, Roy C. Haberkern, Jr., Andrew J. Connick, New York City, of counsel.

John G. Laylin, Washington, D. C., for North American Sugar Industries, Inc., Cuban American Sugar Mills Co., and Cuban-American Mercantile Corp., amici curiae, William H. Allen, William A. Dobrovir, Covington & Burling, Washington, D. C., of counsel.

Katz & Sommerich, New York City, for Cultural, S.A. and Robert I. Williams, amici curiae, Otto C. Sommerich, Benjamin Busch, New York City, of counsel.

Shearman & Sterling, New York City, for First National City Bank, amicus curiae, Henry Harfield, William Harvey Reeves, New York City, of counsel.


FREDERICK van PELT BRYAN, District Judge:

This case is before me on remand from the Supreme Court of the United States (Banco Nacional de Cuba v. Sabbatino et al., 376 U.S. 398, 84 S.Ct. 923, 11 L.Ed. 2d 804 (1964)), which reversed summary judgment in favor of defendants granted by the District Court (193 F.Supp. 375 (1961)) and affirmed by the Court of Appeals (2 Cir., 307 F.2d...

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