In re the Arbitration between Skinner, Cook & Babcock, Inc. & Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist, Borough of Manhattan

The appellant undertook the erection of a church edifice for the defendant, and after the edifice was erected the respondent church refused to pay the balance claimed to be due under the contract on the final certificate in the amount of $6,500 made by the architect, and claimed damages in the same amount for delay. The builders entered a claim against the church for $12,000 damages caused, as the builders claimed, by interference by the church and its representatives, and on other grounds, causing delay in the construction of the edifice. The construction contract provided for the…