MEXICAN PETROLEUM CORPORATION v. NORTH GERMAN LLOYD

No. 18552.

17 F.2d 113 (1926)

MEXICAN PETROLEUM CORPORATION OF LOUISIANA, Inc., v. NORTH GERMAN LLOYD.

District Court, E. D. Louisiana.

December 16, 1926.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Milling, Godchaux, Saal & Milling, of New Orleans, La., for libelant.

Carroll & Carroll and R. B. Montgomery, all of New Orleans, La., for respondent.


BURNS, District Judge.

An exception of no cause of action was filed by respondent to the libel herein, upon the ground that the contract of affreightment, sued upon for damages for a breach, is a nudum pactum for want of consideration or mutuality appearing upon the face of the instrument.

The pertinent parts of the contract are:

"New Orleans, June 29, 1926.

"Mexican Petroleum Corp. of La., Inc...

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