Johnson v. Atkins

This is an appeal from a judgment, or order, confirming an award of arbitrators made after the trial court had denied appellants’ opposition to the petition for arbitration.

The controversy arises out of a c. i. f. contract for the sale of 500 tons of copra to the appellants for shipment to Puerto Colombia, or Barranquilla, Colombia, from San Francisco or Oakland. Two hundred tons were shipped and paid for when the buyer learned that no more copra could be shipped to that country, because permission for entry was either cancelled or denied by the Colombia authorities. The buyer paid to the…