In Re the Arbitration Between Utility Laundry Service, Inc. & Sklar

The Appellate Division has reversed appellant’s judgment for damages, rendered in confirmation of an arbitra tian award, upon the ground that the parties’ agreement to arbitrate did not afford the arbitrator power to assess damages.

Prior to November, 1945, respondents, Sklar and Shampaner, were employed by Utility Laundry Service, Inc., as salesmen and drivers. Each of their individual employment contracts contained a covenant binding the employee, during one year after termination of his employment, to refrain from soliciting any customer of the employer whose name had been learned through…