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CISG-online number
344
Case name
Les Verreries de Saint Gobain S.A. v. Martinswerk GmbH
Jurisdiction
France
Court
Cour de Cassation (French Supreme Court)
Chamber
1re chambre civile (1st chamber for civil matters)
Judges
Jacques Lemontey (Presiding Judge), Ancel (Reporting judge), Petit (Advocate General)
Date of decision
16 July 1998
Case nr./docket nr.
96-11.984
Claimant 1
Name
Les Verreries de Saint Gobain S.A.
Place of business
France
Role in transaction
Buyer
Respondent 1
Name
Martinswerk GmbH
Place of business
Germany
Role in transaction
Seller
Case History
Les Verreries de Saint Gobain S.A. v. Martinswerk GmbH
Tribunal de Commerce de Orléans (Commercial Court Orléans)
France, 1994, CISG-online 3293
Martinswerk GmbH v. Les Verreries de Saint Gobain S.A.
Cour d'appel de Orléans (Court of Appeal Orléans)
France, 06 January 1996, CISG-online 3294
reversing
Present decision affirming
Seller 1
Name
Martinswerk GmbH
Place of business
Germany
Buyer 1
Name
Les Verreries de Saint Gobain S.A.
Place of business
France
Role in trade
Manufacturer purchasing goods as supplies for production purposes
Category of goods
52: Inorganic chemicals
Goods as per contract
Aluminum hydrate (ingredient for glass manufacturing)
CISG applicable
yes
CISG applied
yes, in determining the jurisdiction of the French courts
(Domestic) law applied in addition
1968 Brussels Convention
Key CISG provisions applied
Art. 18; Art. 19; Art. 31
Non-provision-specific issues addressed
Formation of party agreement on dispute resolution clause; Jurisdiction of the courts at the place of performance of obligations arising from a CISG contract under the 1968 Brussels Convention
Decision published in 5
Bulletin des arrêts des Chambres civiles de la Cour de cassation (Bull. civ.) (1998), I, No. 252, 176 [Full text – in French]
Juris-Classeur périodique (La Semaine Juridique), Édition Générale (JCP G) (1998), IV, 3086 [ – in French]
Juris-Classeur périodique (La Semaine Juridique), Édition Entreprise (JCP E) (1998), 1618–1619 [Full text – in French]
Revue critique de droit international privé (Rev. crit. dr. int. privé) (1999), 122–123 [Full text – in French]
International Litigation Procedure (I.L.Pr.) (1999), 296–297 [Full text (translation) – in English]
CLOUT number
242
Case identifier in the old Albert H. Kritzer Database
980716f1
Comments on this decision 3
Bertrand Ancel & Horatia Muir Watt, Revue critique de droit international privé (Rev. crit. dr. int. privé) (1999), 123–132 [– in French]
André Huet, Journal du droit international (JDI or Clunet) (1999), 196–202 [– in French]
Claude Witz, 'Le contentieux des ventes de marchandises intracommunautaires et le jeu combiné des Conventions de Bruxelles et de Vienne - note sous Cass. civ. 1ère, 16 juillet 1998', Recueil Dalloz (D.) (1999), Jur., 117–120 [– in French]
Full text and abstract of decision 2
Abstract of decision
CLOUT Abstract 242 (Language: English)
Full text of decision
Original language: French