Alpert v. Admiration Knitwear Co.

278 A.D. 841, 104 N.Y.S.2d 309, 1951 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 4939

• Court: Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
• Decided: May 14, 1951
• Status: Published

Opinion

Petitioners appeal from an order denying their application that an alleged controversy between the parties proceed to arbitration in accordance with the terms of a contract for the sale of merchandise by the respondent to the petitioners. Order reversed, with $10 costs and disbursements, and the application granted, without costs. Although the terms of the contract permitted the seller to require payment in advance of delivery under certain stated circumstances and to terminate the contract upon the buyers’ failure to pay any amount due under the contract, and it is the respondent’s claim that the contract was cancelled in accordance with these stated terms, the questions of respondent’s right to cancel the contract, and the time and circumstances of its exercise in this case, are controversies, within the contract provisions, “arising out of or relating to” the contract which “ shall be settled by arbitration.” (Matter of Lipman [Haeuser Shellac Go.}, 289 H. T. 76.) Johnston, Wenzel and MacCrate, JJ., concur; Carswell, Acting P. J., and Adel, J., dissent and vote to affirm.