In re Hamburg-American Line

This is an application to stay an action pending in the City Court of the city of New York by Frank H. Kipp, as plaintiff, against the Hamburg-American Line (a foreign corporation). Said action was brought by plaintiff, as assignee of a German corporation, which was the consignee of a shipment of goods made at Shanghai, China, on a Hamburg-American Line ship, for .breach of contract of carriage. The plaintiff assignee is an American citizen.

The contract of carriage contained the following provision: 1 All disputes are to be decided according to German law, and exclusively by the Hamburg…