OLYMPIC CORPORATION v. SOCIETE GENERALE

Nos. 628, 688 and 689, Dockets 72-1019, 72-1031 and 72-1040.

462 F.2d 376 (1972)

OLYMPIC CORPORATION, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SOCIETE GENERALE, A/S Havkong and Meyer Line, Defendants-Appellees. SOCIETE GENERALE, Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff-Appellant and Cross Appellee, v. MANUFACTURE de PRODUITS CHIMIQUES PROTEX, Third-Party Defendant-Appellee and Cross Appellant. A/S HAVKONG (sued herein in its own name and as "Meyer Line"), Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff, v. MANUFACTURE de PRODUITS CHIMIQUES PROTEX, Alpina Transports & Affretements S.A., Third-Party Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided June 20, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Honan, III, New York City (Haight, Gardner, Poor & Havens and John C. Moore, New York City, on brief), for appellee A/S Havkong.

Daniel V. Duff, Jr., New York City (Kramer, Marx, Greenlee & Backus and John M. Kriz, New York City, on brief), for third-party defendant-appellee and cross appellant.

Joseph J. Magrath, New York City (Bigham, Englar, Jones & Houston, New York City, on brief), for plaintiff-appellant.

Guy M. Struve, New York City (Davis, Polk & Wardwell and Thomas P. Griesa, New York City, on brief), for appellee Societe Generale.

Before FRIENDLY, Chief Judge, and MOORE and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges.


ANDERSON, Circuit Judge:

In November, 1969, the Olympic Corporation of Cambridge, Massachusetts, (Olympic) sold 20,000 pounds of the chemical resorcinol to Manufacture de Produits Chimiques Protex (Protex), a French corporation, for use in its plant in Chateau Renault, France. Olympic made the shipment from New York on January 16, 1970, aboard the Havskar owned by A/S Havkong and managed by the Meyer Line, both Norwegian corporations (Havkong).

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