Legal Opinion

Kuehne & Nagel (AG & Co.) v. Geosource, Inc.

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Decided June 5, 1989No. 88-2061PublishedCited by 76 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

W. EUGENE DAVIS, Circuit Judge:

This litigation arose out of the arrangements three freight forwarders — Kuehne & Nagel (AG & Co.) (Kuehne & Nagel), Pan-alpina Welttransport GmbH (Panalpina) and SGS Controll Co. mbH (SGS) — made with Geosource, Inc., and Ucamar Shipping & Transportation (Cayman) Ltd. (Ucamar) to ship cargo. For reasons that follow, we remand all of the claims for jury trial.

I. Background

The dispute in this case stems from an ill-fated deal between the three European freight forwarders and Ucamar to transport goods on through bills of lading from Europe to the Middle East. The…

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