WK Webster & Co v American President Lines Ltd (The “President Cleveland”) - US Court of Appeals (2nd Circuit) (Feinberg and Miner Ct JJ and Knapp DJ) - 2 August 1994

Arbitration clause providing for arbitrators to be “commercial men” - Whether a person who is a practising lawyer can be a “commercial man”

The vessel President Cleveland was chartered to carry a cargo of bagged rice from California to several ports in Mozambique. Clause 44 of the charterparty provided: