Right to Sue Americans Upheld by Judge Purdy:
A highly important point Jurisdiction was settled by Judge Purdy at the U.S, Court on' Mo day, when he delivered his decision inthe motion to dismiss the one of the Gromoy heirs c. the Inter= national Banking Corporation me volving the sum of G.$860,150, on the ground that Russian plaintiffs could no be allowed to sue in an American Court established on the seme bovis as the U, 8. Court for China, Mr. C, S, Franklin, for the Bank, contended that when the U.S, Court of China was established it wax expressly stipulated that Chinese could swe American citizens in that Cour Nothing was said about other for aligners, however, and he submitted that Court could not take Jurisdiction in case where people of non-American nationality, other than Chinese and the people of such countries ax had definite under= standing with America on the xub-Ject, wished to sue American Citizens, He pointed out that America had no political relation-Ship with Russia whatsoever.
Mr. H. D. Rodger, for plaintiff urjgued that America had got core ruin treaties with the old Tsarist Government which Congress had never abrogated. That being the case, he submitted that thox treaties still held good, even though the present Russian Government might have denied.them, and therefore the Court should take jurisdiction in this case. Before the revolution commerce exist between the in Russia, treaties of amity and
United States Government and Russia, and ax Congress had never can Celied these agreements, then they still existed, and by those treaties, Russian subjects were entitled. to take American citizens into that Court.
Mr. Fr kilin produced statements from the merican Legation in Pex ig and the American Consul-Genin Shanghai stating that re: lationship between the" American Government and the Russian Government positively did not exit, The Judge, while not necessarily sxneeing with Mr. Rodger that the political treaties which held scoad with the Tsarist Government held kood with the Soviet Government, edded thatthe United States Court 1g for China could not possibly deprive any, person at all, of whatsoever nationality, from ' bringing U.S. citizens into the Court, The United States Court was established as a lege whereby American citizens.
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