In re the Arbitration between Frankle & Petzold

Three contracts were entered into by the principal* herein and each had the identical arbitration clause. Disputes having arisen, petitioner invokes the benefit of the clause adverted to and demands a direction that respondent proceed to arbitrate the controversy. Respondent resists the application on various grounds as to each of the contracts, particularly asserting that as regards the contracts of October 21 and 26, 1942, no arbitration can be had because no contracts exist between the parties by reason of impossibility of performance occasioned by a regulation promulgated by the Office of…