Cohen v. Ark Asset Holdings, Inc.

—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Beatrice Shainswit, J.), entered July 14, 1999, which, to the extent appealed from, in a proceeding brought pursuant to CPLR article 78 to compel respondent to permit petitioner’s examination of its books, granted respondent’s motion to compel arbitration of the question of whether respondent’s purchase of petitioner’s shares was effective and sufficed to divest petitioner of his status as a shareholder in respondent, and stayed further court proceedings pending completion of the arbitration of that issue, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Having…