In re the Arbitration Concerning Certain Differences between St. John's Guild & Durkin & Laas
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal from, an order of the Supreme Court, entered in the New York county clerk’s office on the 30th day of November, 1914, denying a motion for judgment upon an award of arbitrators, and also (as stated in the notice of appeal) from an order entered on the 19th day of December, 1914, refusing a resettlement of the prior order.
1Per curiam
The objection that the arbitrators were not sworn is a fatal one, the oaths not having been waived in writing. (Code Civ. Proc: § 2369; Hinkle v. Zimmerman, 184 N. Y. 114.) The case appears to be a proper one, however, in which to direct a rehearing before the same arbitrators as authorized by section 2374 of the Code of Civil Procedure. Their failure to take the prescribed oaths did not, under the circumstances, indicate partiality or incompetence. The order appealed from will, therefore, be modified accordingly, with ten dollars costs and disbursements to the appellant. Present — Ingraham,…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Hinkle v. . ZimmermanNew York Court of Appeals · 1906
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