New York Court of Appeals, 1939

Anglo-Continentale Treuhand v. Bethlehem Steel Co.

Anglo-Continentale Treuhand v. Bethlehem Steel Co.
New York Court of Appeals · Decided January 11, 1939 · <italic>Per Curiam.</italic>
19 N.E.2d 89; 279 N.Y. 790; 1939 N.Y. LEXIS 957 (North Eastern Reporter, Second Series)

Anglo-Continentale Treuhand v. Bethlehem Steel Co.

Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam.

This action is the same in principle as the Zurich Insurance Company case (279 N. Y. 495), decided herewith. In the present litigation the trial justice granted plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment for the amount demanded in the complaint but the Appellate Division modified by reducing the judgment to amounts to conform with the theory that the Joint Resolution of Congress (U. S. Code, tit. 31, § 463) required payment of these coupons in foreign currency in a foreign country based upon the value of United States dollars as depreciated.

The judgment of the Appellate Division should be reversed and that of the Special Term affirmed, with costs in this court and in the Appellate Division to the plaintiffs, appellants.

Crane, Ch. J., Lehman, O’Brien, Loughran and Rippey, JJ., concur; Hubbs and Finch, JJ., dissent.

Judgment accordingly.

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