In re the Arbitration between Knickerbocker Textile Corp. & Leifer Manufacturing Corp.

The Special Term, in my view, was right in vacating the award and directing another arbitration before new arbitrators upon the ground that the arbitrator nominated by petitioner had perpetrated a fraud in failing to disclose to the parties that on May 31, 1944, he had, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, pleaded guilty to twenty-nine counts of criminal informations charging violations of Office of Price Administration ceiling *353prices in the sale of finished piece goods and that he had failed to keep accurate records, and was sentenced on June 14, 1944,…