Legal Opinion
Greenspahn v. Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided January 22, 1951No. 21539-21812_1PublishedCited by 67 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SWAN, Circuit Judge.
The present litigation is the outgrowth of a suit for specific performance of contracts by Seagram & Sons, Inc. to sell to Greenspahn’s assignor a large quantity of “Kentucky whiskey” to be produced during the months from January to June 1947. Federal jurisdiction of the suit rested on diverse citizenship of the parties. In that suit the court construed the contracts to call for “Seagram” whiskey and, as the defendant’s answer admitted that it had on hand sufficient whiskey of its own distillation to perform the contracts, the plaintiff was awarded a decree of specific…
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