Trubowitch v. Riverbank Canning Co.

Plaintiffs instituted this proceeding in the superior court under section 1282 of the Code of Civil Procedure to enforce an agreement to arbitrate controversies arising under a written contract for the sale of 3,900 cases of No. 10 tomato paste from defendant’s 1942 production. The contract was entered into on August 20, 1942, by defendant as seller and Pan American Food Corporation, plaintiffs’ assignor as buyer and was on a form adopted by the Canners’ League of California and approved by the National-American Wholesale Grocers’ Association. It contained the following provisions: “Any…