Legal Opinion
Fisser v. International Bank
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided August 1, 1960No. 274, Docket 25914PublishedCited by 155 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HINCKS, Circuit Judge.
The immediate issue for decision is whether the respondent-appellee, International Bank, may be directed to submit to arbitration the determination and *233measure of any liability it may owe to libelants-appellants,1 German coal importers,2 by reason of the conceded breach of a written contract of affreightment signed solely by the libelants and Allied Transportation Corporation, a Liberian corporation which libelants charge was the alter ego of the respondent. The court below answered this question in the negative. It reasoned that whatever liability might ultimately…
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