...(US) 904, followed in suits involving the States of the United States, was quoted with approval : " It is, we think, a sound principle that when a government...sovereign character, and takes that of a private citizen." (277 Fed. 473, 476.) Although little weight was given to the fact that Italy did not grant immunity...

...point, that was in the decision of the Bank of the United States v. Planters Bank of Georgia [reading]: It is, we think, a sound principle that when a government...sovereign character and takes that of a private citizen. Mr. CROSS. Judge, right there, they went into that on an equal footing, to make money or lose money....

...exempt from being sued by the circumstance that the state was a corporator. Chief Justice Marshall said: "It is, we think, a sound principle that when a government becomes a partner iii any trading company, it divests itself, so far as concerns the transactions of that company, of...

...United States v. Planters Bank (9 Wheat. 904, 907 (if. S. 1824)), Chief Justice Marshall once remarked: "It is, we think, a sound principle, that when a government...of communicating to the company its privileges and prerogatives, it descends to a level with those with whom it associates itself, and takes the character...

...United States v. Planters Bank (9 Wheat. 904, 907 (US 1824)), Chief Justice Marshall once remarked: "It is, we think, a sound principle, that when a government...of communicating to the company its privileges and prerogatives, it descends to a level with those with whom it associates itself, and takes the character...

...view was that stated by Marshall, CJ, in an old American authority ( US Bank v. Planters1 Bank 8), that "when a Government becomes a partner in any trading company it devests itself, so far as concerns the transactions of that company, of its sovereign character." [The...

...violation of law is borne out by the decision of Mr. Justice Marshall in 1824, in which he stated : It is, we think, a sound principle, that when a Government...of communicating to the company its privileges and prerogatives, it descends to a level with those with whom it associates itself and takes the character...

...commercial business it divests itself, so far as concerns the transactions of the business corporation, of its sovereign character and takes that of a private...of communicating to the company its privileges and prerogatives it descends to a level with those with whom it associates itself, taking on the character...

...Lashkowitz, for appellants. "When a government becomes a partner in any trading company it devests itself, so far as concerns the transactions of that...of communicating to the company its privileges and prerogatives, it descends to the level with those with whom it associated, and to the business which...

...ruled "that when a government becomes a partner in a trading concern, it devests itself, so far as it concerns the transactions of that company, of its...of communicating to the company its privileges and ¡U prerogatives, it descends to a level with those with whom it associates itself, and takes the character...