Rederi A/B Pulp v. Republic Chemical Corp.

The appellant here, Republic Chemical Corporation, complains rather bitterly that it has been caught here in pincers between libelants’ claim of freight upon breach of its two contracts to ship super-phosphate fertilizer to Korea by libel-ants’ vessels and the impleaded respondent’s failure to honor commitments to furnish the shipments. But the questions presented are essentially those of fact: whether libelants and Republic completed negotiations for the contracts of carriage and what their provisions were; whether libelants were prepared to perform and Republic anticipatorily breached the…