In re the Arbitration of Certain Differences Between Aaacon Auto Transport, Inc. & State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance

OAKES, Circuit Judge:

This appeal contests the validity under the Interstate Commerce Act, and under general equitable principles, of the arbitration clause in an interstate carrier’s standard-form bill of lading utilized in connection with its nationwide business of transporting individually owned automobiles from point to point within the United States. The principal argument is that the arbitration clause is invalid because it compels private shippers to arbitrate their claims in New York, which may be entirely remote, inconvenient and expensive to them in connection with their claims.…