RUSSIAN COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL BANK v. LE COMPTOIR D'ESCOMPTE DE MULHOUSE AND WESTMINSTER BANK, LTD.

(1924) 19 Ll L Rep 312

HOUSE OF LORDS.

Before Viscount Cave, Viscount Finlay, Lord Atkinson, Lord Sumner and Lord Wrenbury.

Claim for return of pledged bonds-Effect of Soviet decrees as to abolition of banks on London branch of Russian bank- Whether plaintiff bank abolished-Capacity to sue - Exhaustion of power of attorney by disappearance of entity which gave it or by supervention of altered circumstances.

(Continued from p. 64.)