Rekvirenten (som åbenbart var bosat i Frankrig) havde ved Tribunal de commerce de Paris fået dom for betaling af et pengebeløb og derefter fået dommen erklæret eksigibel i Forbundsrepublikken Tyskland. Under en appelsag efter konventionens artikel 36
The applicant (a company which apparently had its registered office in France) had ob­tained before the Commercial Court in Paris a judgment ordering payment in respect of which it subsequently requested an order of enforcement for the Federal Republic of Germany.