Watts, Watts & Co. v. Unions Austriaca di Navigazione
District Court, E.D. New York
In Admiralty. Suit by Watts, Watts & Co., Limited, against the Unione Austríaca di Navigazione, etc. This is a libel brought by Watts, Watts & Co., Limited, an English corporation, against the Unione Austríaca di Navigazione, etc., an Austrian corporation, to recover the sura of §45,360, the contract price of bunker coal supplied by the libelant to tlie respondent's steamers at Algiers, a dependency of the French Republic, before the outbreak of war between England and…
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In Admiralty. Suit by Watts, Watts & Co., Limited, against the Unione Austríaca di Navigazione, etc. This is a libel brought by Watts, Watts & Co., Limited, an English corporation, against the Unione Austríaca di Navigazione, etc., an Austrian corporation, to recover the sura of §45,360, the contract price of bunker coal supplied by the libelant to tlie respondent's steamers at Algiers, a dependency of the French Republic, before the outbreak of war between England and Austria. Jurisdiction was obtained by a writ of foreign attachment of the respondent’s steamer Martha Washington. The parties…
1Opinion of the CourtVeeder, District Judge
(after stating the-facts as above). It appears from the foregoing statement that drafts given by the Austrian respondent for coal supplied before the outbreak of war by the British libelant, payable at the Laenderbank, London, were not paid when due because the respondent had not forwarded the funds to pay them. The reason given by the respondent for its failure to supply the funds was that the state of -war which had intervened made it impossible for the respondent to perform an obligation calling for payment to an alien enemy. The embargo imposed by Sir Wiíliam Plender, the controller in…
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