Case Name: Anglo-Continentale Treuhand et al., Appellants and Respondents, v. Bethlehem Steel Company, Respondent and Appellant
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1939-01-11
Citations: 279 N.Y. 790
Docket Number: 
Parties: Anglo-Continentale Treuhand et al., Appellants and Respondents, v. Bethlehem Steel Company, Respondent and Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 279
Pages: 790–791

Head Matter:
Anglo-Continentale Treuhand et al., Appellants and Respondents, v. Bethlehem Steel Company, Respondent and Appellant.
Argued October 10, 1938;
decided January 11, 1939.
Harry Hoffman, Clifford R. Schuman and Milton E. Mermelstein for plaintiffs, appellants and respondents.
Frederick H. Wood, Hoyt A. Moore, William D. Whitney and Robert D. Blasier for defendant, respondent and appellant.

Opinion:
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.