Complicated History' of American Consignment to Russia and a Vladivostok Seizure in H. M. Supreme Court last Friday, his Honour Judge Sir Skinner Turner gave judgment- in the case of S. A. Ibragimoff v. The Siberian Agricultura] Oorporation, Ld., which was a claim by plaintiff to recover Y. 22,476, the value of a consignment of military boots from America handed over to defendants' care and alleged to have been sold by them. The Court held that defendants were responsible, and gave judgment for plaintiff.
Mr. Tycho Wing, with Mr. W. S. Fleming, appeared for plaintiff, and Mr. R. F. C. Master for defendants.
His Lordship. said: In this case the plaintiff, a Russian citizen, sues the defendant company (a private company registered in Hongkong) for the value of certain boots handed to them in Vladivostok for safe custody and converted to their own use.
The defendants reply that the plaintiff is not entitled to sue at all: and. further that they were deprived without negligence of these boots by the de facto Government at Vladivostok. The trouble has arisen over the varying course of events that took place there in the past few years.
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