Stoop v Argentina

• Jurisdicción: Argentina
• Fecha: 09 Octubre 1958
• Emisor: Federal Court of Appeals (Argentina)

Argentina, National Court of Appeals in Federal and Administrative Cases for the Federal Capital.

Stoop

and

National Government.

War Effects of outbreak of On neutral property Economic measures against neutral persons and property The law of Argentina.

The Facts.The complainant, Marn Arnold Stoop, sued the National Government to recover possession of 2,434 shares of stock, and the dividends thereon, issued by the Compaa Telegrfica-Telefnica del Plata and owned by Bergwerke-Industrie und Handelsgesellschaft A.G. of Glarus (Switzerland), of which Stoop was agent in Argentina. These assets of the Corporation were seized as enemy property during the war by the Council on the Control and Disposal of Enemy Property and were being held on behalf of the Government which sought to retain its control over this property. The trial Court dismissed the action in 1954. The complainant appealed.

Held: that the decision under appeal must be reversed. Where property...