CROWN CORK & SEAL CO., INC. v. RHEEM MFG. CO., INC.


64 A.D.2d 545 (1978)

Crown Cork & Seal Co., Inc., Appellant, v. Rheem Manufacturing Co., Inc., et al., Respondents

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

July 13, 1978


We agree with Special Term that all the issues relate to happenings in South Africa, where by far the greater number of necessary witnesses are to be found, and that this State is an inconvenient forum. It would, in the circumstances, constitute an unnecessary burden on our courts to be compelled to apply foreign law, as the case demands, in our courts. However, the interest of justice requires that conditions should be imposed for dismissal here so that plaintiff may not...

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