Red Cross Line v. Atlantic Fruit Co.

Mr. Justice Brandéis

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The Arbitration Law of New York, enacted April 19, 1920, c. 275, and amended March 1, 1921, c. 14, declares that a provision in a written contract to settle by arbitration a controversy thereafter arising between the parties “ shall be valid, enforcible and irrevocable, save upon such grounds as exist at law or in equity for the revocation of any contract.” It authorizes the Supreme Court, or a judge thereof, to direct, upon the application of a party to such an agreement, that the arbitration proceed in the manner so provided; to appoint…