Naetzker v. Brocton Central School District

Memorandum. The order of the Appellate Division should be reversed, with costs, and petitioner’s application for a stay of arbitration denied. The owner’s claim against the architects, which is cognizable in law either in contract or in tort, was interposed within the six-year Statute of Limitations applicable to contract actions. (CPLR 7502, subd [b]; Matter of Paver & Wildfoerster [Catholic High School Assn.], 38 NY2d 669.) The facts in the present case are "remarkably like those” in Paver & Wildfoerster itself (38 NY2d, at p 676) and the rule articulated in that case is fully applicable to…