Lowry & Co. v. S.S. Le Moyne D'Iberville

WEINFELD, District Judge.

Libelant, the transferee of bills of lading covering sugar cargoes shipped on respondent’s vessel, filed this libel to recover damages to the shipments, which were carried from French ports to New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore.

The respondent moves to dismiss the libel or alternatively to direct libelant to submit its claim to arbitration. The basis of the motion is an arbitration clause in the charter party entered into between respondent and Amerop Commodities Corporation, from whom libelant acquired the bills of lading.

On September 17, 1963 respondent, a French…