Orion Shipping & Trading Co. v. Eastern States Petroleum Corp. of Panama, S.A.

SWAN, Circuit Judge.

The order on appeal was entered in an admiralty suit brought by libelant-ap-pellee hereafter called Orion, in a cause of maritime contract of affreightment against appellant, a Panamanian corporation hereafter called Panama, and two other domestic corporations hereafter called Eastern and Signal respectively. The libel asserts a first cause of action against Panama only, and a second cause of action only against the other two respondents. The order for arbitration does not affect them, and they are not appellants.

Orion and Panama, which designated itself “as agents for…