Victrix Steamship Co. v. Salen Dry Cargo

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a party “having elected to avail itself of a state court remedy ... must accept the state court procedural rules applicable to the remedy it has sought” and thus may be hable for attorneys’ fees for wrongful attachment
• distinguishing debtor’s purely private rights versus a case taking on a “public character by virtue of [the debtor’s] insolvency and the institution of the ... bankruptcy proceeding”
• New York law required federal court \to deny enforcement of the London judgment as conflicting with New York's public policy of deferring to foreign [Swedish] bankruptcy proceedings\
• “American courts have long recognized the particular need to extend comity to foreign bankruptcy proceedings.”
• refusal to countenance attachment designed to evade writ of Swedish bankruptcy court
• “The equitable and orderly distribution of a debtor’s property requires assembling all claims against the limited assets in a single proceeding; if all creditors could not be bound, a plan of reorganization would fail.”

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