La Nacional Platanera v. North American Fruit & Steamship Corp.

FOSTER, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a decree entered bn the petition of appellant, plaintiff below, filed in a pending suit, praying for an order directing the parties to proceed according to a clause in the contract declared on, providing for arbitration and to stay the cause pending the result of the arbitration.

The record is unsatisfactory, but the following sufficiently appears: The action is at law to recover damages of some $20,-000 for breach of a charter party, by which plaintiff hired the steamship Venator from appellee, defendant below. We will hereafter refer to the…