ALEXANDER PICKERING & CO. v. CHINESE AMER. C. S. ASS'N

No. 7142.

71 F.2d 895 (1934)

ALEXANDER PICKERING & CO., Limited, v. CHINESE AMERICAN COLD STORAGE ASS'N., Inc.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

June 15, 1934.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fleming, Franklin & Allman and Teesdale, Newman & Co., all of Shanghai, China, and Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, Alfred Sutro, and Eugene M. Prince, all of San Francisco, Cal., for appellant.

George Sellett, of Shanghai, China, and Allen L. Chickering, Frederick M. Fisk, and Chickering & Gregory, all of San Francisco, Cal., for appellee.

Before WILBUR, SAWTELLE, and GARRECHT, Circuit Judges.


SAWTELLE, Circuit Judge.

The appellant, a British corporation, brought suit to recover damages from the appellee, an American corporation, for breach of a purported written contract. A copy of the contract was attached to the complaint, and was admitted by the pleadings to be a true copy.

The court below rendered judgment for the appellee on the sole ground that the "contract * * * was void and unenforceable from its inception."

The case was tried...

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