NEUCHATEL SWISS GENERAL INS. v. LUFTHANSA AIRLINES

No. 89-55851.

925 F.2d 1193 (1991)

NEUCHATEL SWISS GENERAL INSURANCE COMPANY, et al., Plaintiffs, and Express Transports S.A., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. LUFTHANSA AIRLINES; Deutsche Lufthansa A.G., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided February 19, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dennis J. Seider and James V. Doiron, Seider & Cohan, Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiff-appellant.

James L. Oberman and Robert Fremlin, Lillick & Charles, San Francisco, Cal., for defendants-appellees.

Before ALARCON and NORRIS, Circuit Judges, and GEORGE, District Judge.


WILLIAM A. NORRIS, Circuit Judge:

This appeal involves an ordinary commercial dispute over the loss of cargo consisting of a sealed carton of gold and jewels, which was transformed, as if by alchemy, into a bag of lead by the end of its international journey. The district court, relying upon Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States, 424 U.S. 800, 96 S.Ct. 1236, 47 L.Ed.2d 483 (1976), entered an order staying...

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