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CISG-online number
30
Case name
Marble slabs case I
Jurisdiction
Germany
Court
Oberlandesgericht Koblenz (Court of Appeal Koblenz)
Chamber
2. Zivilsenat (2nd panel for civil matters)
Date of decision
27 September 1991
Case nr./docket nr.
2 U 1899/89
Claimant 1
Place of business
Italy
Role in transaction
Seller
Respondent 1
Place of business
Germany
Role in transaction
Buyer
Case History
Marble slabs case I
Landgericht Koblenz (District Court Koblenz)
Germany, 24 November 1989 – 1 HO 66/89, CISG-online 3435
Present decision
Seller 1
Place of business
Italy
Buyer 1
Place of business
Germany
Category of goods
27: Crude fertilizers, other than those of division 56, and crude minerals (excluding coal, petroleum and precious stones)
Goods as per contract
Marble slabs
CISG applicable
yes, Art. 1(1)(b)
CISG applied
yes
(Domestic) law applied in addition
Italian law
Key CISG provisions applied
Art. 1(1)(b); Art. 82(1)
CISG provisions also cited
Art. 1(1)(a); Art. 38(1); Art. 39(1); Art. 49; Art. 95
This decision cites the following other CISG-online case 1
Italian fashion textiles case III
Landgericht Hamburg (District Court Hamburg)
Germany, 26 September 1990 – 5 O 543/88, CISG-online 21
This decision is cited by 1
LABETA, a.s. v. Viking Mašek, a.s.
Nejvyšší soud České republiky (Supreme Court of the Czech Republic)
Czech Republic, 29 September 2022 – 23 Cdo 2938/2020, CISG-online 6773
Decision published in 1
Diritto del Commercio Internazionale (Dir. com. int.) (1996), 621 [Abstract – in Italian]
CLOUT number
316
Case identifier in the old Albert H. Kritzer Database
910927g1
Comment on this decision 1
Ulrich G. Schroeter, Internationales UN-Kaufrecht, 7th ed., Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck (2022), at no. 894 [– in German]
Full text and abstract of decision 2