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REPUBLIC OF IRAQ v. FIRST NATIONAL CITY BANK

No. 102, Docket 29817.

353 F.2d 47 (1965)

REPUBLIC OF IRAQ, Appellant, v. FIRST NATIONAL CITY BANK, as Administrator of the Goods, Chattels and Credits of His Majesty King Faisal II Ibn Ghazi Ibn Faisal I of Iraq, deceased, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided November 8, 1965.

Certiorari Denied January 31, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leo C. Fennelly, New York City (Fennelly, Douglas, Eagan, Nager & Voorhees, New York City; Edward P. F. Eagan, New York City, of counsel), for appellant.

Woodson D. Scott, New York City (Lord, Day & Lord, New York City), for appellee.

Before FRIENDLY and KAUFMAN, Circuit Judges, and HERLANDS, District Judge.

Certiorari Denied January 31, 1966. See 86 S.Ct. 648.

FRIENDLY, Circuit Judge:

King Faisal II of Iraq was killed on July 14, 1958, in the midst of a revolution in that country which led to the establishment of a republic, recognized by the United States in August. On July 19, 1958, the new government issued Ordinance No. 23 which decreed that "all property [of the dynasty] * * * whether moveable or immoveable * * should be confiscated."1...

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