Abrams v. Nat Lewis Purses, Inc.

The petitioner raises two objections to the award. The first is that the arbitrators violated the terms of the submission by agreeing that a unanimous award was. to be necessary. Assuming that the affidavit of one of the arbitrators is admissible for the purpose of establishing such an agreement on the part of the arbitrators (See in this connection Matter of Shirley Silk Co. v. American Silk Mills, 257 App. Div. 375), and assuming further that such an agreement would constitute good ground for vacating the award, the objection must, nevertheless, be overruled, the court not being satisfied…