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CISG-online number
1790
Case name
Shoe leather case
Jurisdiction
Poland
Court
Sąd Najwyższy (Supreme Court of Poland)
Date of decision
11 May 2007
Case nr./docket nr.
V CSK 456/06
Claimant 1
Name
Spoldzielnia Pracy „A“
Place of business
Poland
Role in transaction
Seller
Respondent 1
Name
M.W.D. GmbH & Co. KG
Place of business
Germany
Role in transaction
Buyer
Case History
Shoe leather case
Sąd Okręgowy w Opolu (District Court Opole)
Poland, 06 January 2003, CISG-online 4316
Shoe leather case
Sąd Rejonowy we Wrocławiu (Local Court Wroclaw)
Poland, 22 May 2006, CISG-online 4322
Present decision
Seller 1
Name
Spoldzielnia Pracy „A“
Place of business
Poland
Buyer 1
Name
M.W.D. GmbH & Co. KG
Place of business
Germany
Category of goods
61: Leather, leather manufactures, not elsewhere specified, and dressed furskins
Goods as per contract
4,400 square meters of leather for the manufacture of boots for the German army (Bundeswehr)
Key CISG provisions applied
Art. 7; Art. 25; Art. 35; Art. 46; Art. 71; Art. 80
CISG provisions also cited
Art. 49
Non-provision-specific issues addressed
Contracting party's right to withhold performance
This decision cites the following other CISG-online case 1
Glass recycling machine case
Oberster Gerichtshof (Austrian Supreme Court)
Austria, 08 November 2005 – 4 Ob 179/05k, CISG-online 1156
This decision cites the following CISG-AC Opinion 1
CISG-AC Opinion No. 5 ‘The Buyer's Right to Avoid the Contract in Case of Non-conforming Goods or Documents’ (Rapporteur: Ingeborg Schwenzer), adopted by the CISG Advisory Council at its 9th meeting in Philadelphia (USA) in 2005
This decision is cited by 3
Confectionery products case
Sąd Najwyższy (Supreme Court of Poland)
Poland, 02 June 2017 – II CSK 603/16, CISG-online 4413
Car paint case
Sąd Apelacyjny w Białymstoku (Court of Appeal Bialystok)
Poland, 20 November 2012 – I ACa 319/12, CISG-online 2779
Car paint case
Sąd Okręgowy w Olsztynie (District Court Olsztyn)
Poland, 23 February 2012 – V GC 115/10, CISG-online 4349
CLOUT number
1080
Case identifier in the old Albert H. Kritzer Database
070511p1
Comments on this decision 4
Joshua D. H. Karton & Lorraine de Germiny, 'Has the CISG Advisory Council Come of Age?', 27 Berkeley Journal of International Law (Berkeley J. Int'l L.) (2009), 448–495, at 475 [– in English]  
Jerzy Wojciech Kocot, 'Glosa do wyroku SN z dnia 11 maja 2007 r., V CSK 456/06', Orzecznictwo Sadów Polskich (OSP) (2008) [– in Polish]
Piotr Machnikowski, 'CISG In Polish Case Law', Internationales Handelsrecht (IHR) (2018), 181–186, at 184 [– in English]
Arkadiusz Wowerka, 'Konwencja wiedeńska o umowach międzynarodowej sprzedaży towarów - prawo kupującego do żądania dostarczenia towarów zastępczych jako prawo kształtujące i podstawa prawna uprawnienia do wstrzymania się z zapłatą ceny. Glosa do wyroku SN z dnia 11 maja 2007 r., V CSK 456/06', 4 Gdanskie Studia Prawnicze (GSP) (2008), 53–68 [– in Polish]
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Abstract of decision
CLOUT Abstract 1080 (Language: English)
Full text of decision
Original language: Polish