Isaacs v. Beth Hamedash Society
New York Court of Common Pleas
Appeal by plaintiff from an order of tbe special term, denying a motion to vacate a judgment entered on an award of arbitrators. By tbe affidavits on which this motion was founded, it appeared that tbe plaintiff bad preferred a claim against the defendants, a Jewish society, for services and disbursements in making passover bread, under a contract with them.
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Appeal by plaintiff from an order of tbe special term, denying a motion to vacate a judgment entered on an award of arbitrators. By tbe affidavits on which this motion was founded, it appeared that tbe plaintiff bad preferred a claim against the defendants, a Jewish society, for services and disbursements in making passover bread, under a contract with them. He had brought a suit in the Marine Court upon this claim, when it was proposed, on behalf of tbe society, that tbe controversy should, be submitted to arbitration. This was agreed to on the part of plaintiff, and an agreement of…
1Opinion of the CourtDaly, J.
It appears, by the affidavits, read on the part oi the plaintiff, that, at a meeting of all the trustees, it was unanimously agreed that it vould be better to arbitrate the matter in difference between the plaintiff and the society, and that the trustees then and there authorized the president of the society and two of the trustees to act for the sobiety n the matter of the arbitration. This is denied by affidavits on the part of the defendants; but the uncontroverted fact, that the submission to arbitration, drawn up by Dr. Eaphael, was read and translated to the parties to it, and that all…
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