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

(1924) 19 Ll L Rep 63

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-Costs-Exhaustion of power of attorney by disappearance of entity which gave it or by supervention of altered circumstances.