The Republic of Indonesia v. J. R. Simplot Company

DENMAN, Chief Judge.

The Republic of Indonesia appeals from a judgment in a suit based on diversity of citizenship on two contracts, one for the sale to appellant of three million pounds of dehydrated potatoes and the other for a million and a half pounds.

The court held appellant cannot recover from appellee the cost of unloading the potatoes on to the railway dock at Portland from the railway cars. Appellant contends the District Court erred in construing the contracts of sale as placing this cost on the appellant.

Appellee contends that the District Court lacked such jurisdiction because…