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254 A.D. 233

In re Amsterdam Dispatch, Inc.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · decided 1938-05-27

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently December 1966

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Relies on In Re Buffalo & Erie Railway Co.

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Decided 1938-05-27

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Per Curiam.

¶1The contract provides that “ Should any difference arise between employer and employee, the same shall be submitted to arbitration by both parties; failing to agree they shall mutually appoint an umpire, whose decision shall be final.”

¶2However desirable arbitration might be under these provisions to determine matters concerning which the parties have not agreed and thereby to create a contract which they have not made, it is not authorized by our statute. (Matter of Buffalo & Erie R. Co., 250 N. Y. 275; Matter of Fletcher, 237 id. 440.) Furthermore, these arbitration provisions when read with the provisions of paragraph 13 that “ during that time [the term of the contract] there shall be no revisions or modifications of this agreement ” must be held to be limited to “ any difference … between employer and employee ” concerning the construction, effect or performance of the contract. It should not be extended to allow either party to invoke arbitration to create a contract for them.

¶3For these reasons and without consideration of the other questions urged on this appeal, the order should be reversed, with twenty dollars costs and disbursements, and the motion denied.

¶4Present — Martin, P. J., O’Malley, Glennon, Untermyer and Dore, JJ.

¶5Order unanimously reversed, with twenty dollars costs and disbursements, and motion denied.

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