Watts, Watts & Co. v. Unione Austriaca Di Navigazione
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OP APPEALS POR THE SECOND CIRCUIT. The case is stated in the opinion. The drafts did. not'constitute a novation or waiver. . The Emily Souder, 17 Wall. 666. The obligation sued on is in essence for goods sold and delivered — an obligation justiciable in any civilized country, Cuba R. R, Co, v. - Crosby, 222 U. S. 473, 478, and one peculiarly within the jurisdiction of every maritime tribunal which could obtain jurisdiction over the defendant…
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CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OP APPEALS POR THE SECOND CIRCUIT. The case is stated in the opinion. The drafts did. not'constitute a novation or waiver. . The Emily Souder, 17 Wall. 666. The obligation sued on is in essence for goods sold and delivered — an obligation justiciable in any civilized country, Cuba R. R, Co, v. - Crosby, 222 U. S. 473, 478, and one peculiarly within the jurisdiction of every maritime tribunal which could obtain jurisdiction over the defendant by attachment or otherwise. If the debt had been assigned to a subject of any power not at war with England, no question…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice Brandéis
delivered the opinion of the court.
On August 4, 1914, Great Britain declared war against Germany, and on August 12, 1914, against Austria-Hungary. Prior to August 4, Watts, Watts & Co., Limited, a British corporation, had supplied to Unione Austríaca di Navigazione, an Austro-Hungarian corporation, bunker coal at Algiers, a dependency of the French Republic. Drafts on London given therefor having been ‘protested for non-payment, the seller brought, on August 24, 1914,- a libel in personam against the purchaser in the District Court of the United States for the Eastern…
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