Uneeda-Hempstead, Inc. v. Bilt Well Contracting Co.

Motion for an order confirming an award resultant upon an agreed submission of the controversy to be administered by the American Arbitration Association. The award was in favor of defendant in the sum of $331. Nothing was alluded to as to either costs, disbursements or interest in the agreement to arbitrate, nor did the award in any manner allude to any such item. In the absence of such elements this court has no power to award any of such items. (Van Alstyne v. Wimple, 4 Cow. 547; 10 Carmody Prac. § 1278.)

The defendant, however, claims that inasmuch as his arbitration agreement contained…