Re Alsys

• Jurisdiction: Lituania
• Date: 13 February 1930
• Docket Number: Case No. 42
• Court: Supreme Court (Lithuania)

Lithuania, Supreme Court.

Case No. 42

In re Alsys.

State Succession — Private Rights — Actions brought before the Courts of the Predecessor.

The Facts.—This was an application for the renewal of the proceedings in an inheritance action brought by the applicant in 1913 before the Russian courts in the present territory of Lithuania and interrupted as the result of the outbreak of war. The applicant was precluded from bringing a new action because the claim was barred by a statute of limitations. The application was brought directly before the Supreme Court, in accordance with Lithuanian law, with a view to obtaining an instruction to the Court below to renew the proceedings.

Held: that the application must be dismissed. Lithuania was a sovereign State which did not derive its sovereignty from Russia. The Lithuanian courts were not...