RHONE MEDITERRANEE COMPAGNIA FRANCESE v. LAURO

Civ. No. 81-116.

555 F.Supp. 481 (1982)

RHONE MEDITERRANEE COMPAGNIA FRANCESE DI ASSICURAZIONI E RIASSICURAZIONI, Plaintiff, v. Achille LAURO, et al., Defendants.

District Court, Virgin Islands, D. St. Thomas and St. John.

October 4, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Short, Dudley, Dudley & Topper, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, V.I., for plaintiff.

Thomas D. Ireland, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, V.I., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

CHRISTIAN, Chief Judge.

Before the Court is the motion of the defendants to dismiss the amended complaint and for an order directing the plaintiff to arbitrate the instant controversy in Napoli, Italy. The motion will be granted in part and denied in part.

I. Facts

The relevant facts of this cause are as follows. On March 30, 1979, the vessel "Angelina Lauro" caught fire and burned while tied up at the dock of...

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