BANCO NACIONAL de CUBA v. FARR

No. 59, Docket 30341.

383 F.2d 166 (1967)

BANCO NACIONAL de CUBA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. F. Shelton FARR, William F. Prescott, Emmet Whitlock, Lawrence H. Dixon, H. Bartow Farr, Elizabeth C. Prescott, Fabio Freyre and Helen G. Downs, copartners doing business as Farr, Whitlock & Co., Defendants and 3rd-Party Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. COMPANIA AZUCARERA VERTIENTES-CAMAGUEY de CUBA and Lehman Brothers, 3rd-Party Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided July 31, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Victor Rabinowitz, Leonard B. Boudin, Rabinowitz & Boudin, New York City (P. Kent Spriggs, New York City, on the brief), for plaintiff-appellant.

C. Dickerman Williams, Harold d'O. Baker, Baker, Nelson, Williams & Mitchell, New York City, for defendants and third-party plaintiffs-appellees.

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

Arthur H. Dean, New York City, Erwin N. Griswold, Cambridge, Mass., Max Chopnick, G. W. Haight, Doris Carroll, Benjamin Busch, New York City, for amicus curiae, The American Bar Association.

Peter J. Kooiman, George W. Haight, New York City, John G. Laylin, Monroe Leigh, Washington, D. C., Myres S. McDougal, New Haven, Conn., Cecil J. Olmstead, New York City, William A. Dobrovir, Washington, D. C., for Amicus Curiae, the Executive Committee of the American Branch of the International Law Association.

Before WATERMAN, MOORE and HAYS, Circuit Judges.


WATERMAN, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissing the appellant's complaint and the defendant's complaint against impleaded third parties. This litigation has been the subject of three much-discussed previous opinions. In the original hearing of the action before the district court summary judgment was granted in favor of the defendants, D.C., 193 F.Supp...

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