Legal Opinion
Southern Cross Overseas Agencies, Inc. v. Wah Kwong Shipping Group Ltd.
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided June 25, 1999No. 98-5185UnknownCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
BECKER, Chief Judge.
This suit for sums past due for transportation of cargo emerges from a setting of contractual relationships and prior litigation history so complicated and convoluted as to almost boggle the mind. It will take over thirteen pages of typescript to describe them. The case had its genesis in a now-failed Australian corporation’s relationship with a still-extant Hong Kong corporation. The plaintiffs here claim to have been victims of fraud by the Hong Kong corporation. Aspects of the controversy have previously been litigated in an Australian liquidation…
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- Southern Cross Overseas Agencies, Inc. v. Wah Kwong Shipping Group Ltd.Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1999