Alcoa Steamship Company, Inc. v. Charles Ferran & Company, Inc., Charles Ferran & Company, Inc. v. Alcoa Steamship Company, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that admiralty law governed contract to repair vessel’s boiler
• concluding that red letter clause was enforceable against Alcoa when “the practice in the industry and the previous Alcoa-Ferran relations were sufficient to put Alcoa on full notice that the clause was implied in every repair contract”
• holding that no choice-of-law analysis was necessary in maritime contract case
• holding, in a maritime contract case, that because “application of state or federal law yields the same result . . . , we need not resolve the choice of law problem”
• outlining the two-step analysis to determine which law governs the construction of the terms of a maritime contract
• applying admiralty law to a contract to rebrick the floor of a vessel’s starboard boiler room

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).