Legal Opinion
Burlington Northern Railroad Company v. Hyundai Merchant Marine Co., Ltd.
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided September 20, 1995No. 94-5550PublishedCited by 126 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BECKER, Circuit Judge.
This appeal concerns the timeliness of a maritime indemnity claim under the Car-mack Amendment to the Interstate Commerce Act, 49 U.S.C. § 11707, though its ultimate disposition turns on the application of an “unmixed questions of law” exception to the doctrine of issue preclusion. The case arises from a shipment of furnace equipment by Tongil Co., Ltd. from Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Pusan, South Korea that arrived in damaged condition. The goods were carried by rail from Milwaukee to Seattle by plaintiff Burlington Northern Railroad Company (“Burlington”), and thence by…
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