Merinos Viesca Y Compania, Inc. v. Pan American Petroleum & Transport Co.

GALSTON, District Judge.

The defendants move to compel the plaintiff to reply to fourteen separate defenses, which may be grouped as follows:

The first four relate to statutes of limitation in New York, Vera Cruz, Delaware, and Maine; the fifth, sixth, and seventh set forth ratification; the eighth and ninth sel up the defense of estoppel; the tenth and twelfth, res ad judicata (the twelfth defense relates to res adjudieata based on an alleged prior proceeding in the courts of the' state of Mexico, to which plaintiff has agreed to reply) ; the eleventh, forum non conveniens; the thirteenth, a…