UNITED STATES MERCHANTS' & S. INS CO. v. ELDER DEMPSTER & CO.

No. 64.

62 F.2d 59 (1932)

UNITED STATES MERCHANTS' & SHIPPERS' INS. CO. v. ELDER DEMPSTER & CO., Limited, et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

December 12, 1932.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Single & Hill, of New York City (Wilmer H. Eberly, of New York City, of counsel), for appellant.

Haight, Smith, Griffin & Deming, of New York City (Wharton Poor and Herbert M. Statt, both of New York City, of counsel), for appellees.

Before L. HAND, SWAN, and CHASE, Circuit Judges.


L. HAND, Circuit Judge.

The actions were upon the breach of contracts of affreightment, probably made and to be performed outside the United States, though the record is too uncertain to make a finding. One plaintiff is a corporation of New York, the other of California, and the defendant is a British corporation, acting as ships' agent for two lines of steamships. It has several places of business, one in the Port of New York, where concededly its activities are...

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