177 Misc. 560 | N.Y. Sup. Ct. | 1941
In Matter of Kelley (240 N. Y. 74, 79) the Court of Appeals declared that a provision for arbitration may be broad enough to permit the arbitrator, himself to determine whether or not he possesses jurisdiction of a given dispute. The court cited as authority Willesford v. Watson (8 Ch. App. Cas. [L. R.] 473), in which a provision for arbitration, which was not as broad as
Nor is there any merit to the claim that the arbitrators in the instant case may not properly award relief in the nature of a decree of specific performance. There is no rule of law limiting the relief which an arbitrator may award to money judgments, even in cases where no equitable decree would be proper if the controversy between the parties were being determined by a court rather than by arbitrators. It is undenied that the contracts between the parties contained a provision for arbitration. It is clear that the disputes sought to be arbitrated relate solely to the employment relationship between the parties which resulted from such contracts. It follows that the motion to stay arbitration as to certain allegedly “ non-arbitrable issues and matters ” must be denied. Motion denied.