Louisiana Shipbuilding Co. v. Bing Dampskibsaktieselskab

The title of this case looks as if somebody had pied the type. But it is not so. Bing Dampskibsaktieselskab is the name of a steamship corporation in the kingdom of Norway.

The suit is a result of an undertaking on the part of the plaintiff to build four wooden ships for the steamship company during the late war. The contract was made, originally, between the Slidell' Dry Dock & Shipbuilding Company, as builder, and the Coast Steamship Company, for whom the ships were to be built. The plaintiff, Louisiana Shipbuilding Company, succeeded to the rights and obligations of the Slidell Dry Dock &…