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CISG-online number
268
Case name
Sport d'hiver di Genevieve Culet v. Ets. Louys et Fils
Jurisdiction
Italy
Court
Tribunale di Cuneo (District Court Cuneo)
Chamber
Sezione I Civile
Judges
Dott. Elisabetta Meinardi (Presiding Judge), Dott. Gian Paolo Macagno (Reporting judge), Dott. Gianluca Petragnani Gelosi (Judge)
Date of decision
31 January 1996
Case nr./docket nr.
45/96
Claimant 1
Name
Sport d'hiver di Genevieve Culet
Place of business
Italy
Role in transaction
Buyer
Respondent 1
Name
Ets. Louys et Fils
Place of business
France
Role in transaction
Seller
Seller 1
Name
Ets. Louys et Fils
Place of business
France
Buyer 1
Name
Sport d'hiver di Genevieve Culet
Place of business
Italy
Role in trade
Dealer / Trader
Category of goods
84: Articles of apparel and clothing accessories
Goods as per contract
Sporting clothes
CISG applicable
yes, Art. 1(1)(a)
CISG applied
yes
Key CISG provisions interpreted and applied
Art. 38(1); Art. 39(1)
CISG provisions also cited
Art. 40
Relevant CISG provisions not cited
Art. 1(1)(a)
This decision cites the following other CISG-online cases 2
Furniture case II
Pretura di Locarno Campagna (Court of First Instance Locarno Campagna)
Switzerland, 27 April 1992 – 6252, CISG-online 68
Italian shoes case III
Landgericht Stuttgart (District Court Stuttgart)
Germany, 31 August 1989 – 3 KfH O 97/89, CISG-online 11
This decision is cited by 4
Chicago Prime Packers, Inc. v. Northam Food Trading Co.
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
USA, 21 May 2004 – 01 C 4447, CISG-online 851
SO.M.AGRI s.a.s. v. Erzeugerorganisation Marchfeldgemüse GmbH & Co. KG
Tribunale di Padova (District Court Padova)
Italy, 25 February 2004 – 40552, CISG-online 819
Al Palazzo S.r.l. v. Bernardaud S.A.
Tribunale di Rimini (District Court Rimini)
Italy, 26 November 2002 – 3095, CISG-online 737
Rheinland Versicherungen v. Atlarex s.r.l.
Tribunale di Vigevano (District Court Vigevano)
Italy, 12 July 2000 – 405, CISG-online 493
Decision published in 1
Diritto del Commercio Internazionale (Dir. com. int.) (1996), 653
Case identifier in the old Albert H. Kritzer Database
960131i3
Comments on this decision 3
Edoardo Ferrante, 'Thirty Years of CISG: International Sales, Italian Style', 5 Italian Law Journal (Italian L.J.) (2019), 87–130, at 122 [– in English]  
Andrew J. Kennedy, 'Recent Developments: Non-conforming Goods Under the CISG - What's a Buyer to Do?', 16 Dickinson Journal of International Law (Dick. J. Int'l L.) (1998), 319–341, at 337 [– in English]  
Nico Spiegel, Recueil Dalloz (D.) (1997), Somm., 222–223 [– in French]
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Original language: Italian