199 A.D. 617 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1922
The parties hereto on July 9,1920, entered into an agreement in writing, by which D. Goff & Sons, Inc., agreed to sell and Daniel Rheinauer agreed to buy 10,000 pounds of yarn, “ 2-skein, 26 grade E.X.” at the price of two dollars and ten cents per pound, deliveries f. o. b. point of shipment, and to be made at the rate of 1,000 pounds weekly, starting August 1, 1920, to be completed in not exceeding six months from date. Payments were to be made against each installment. The first installment of 1,000 pounds was shipped in advance of the time fixed by the contract, and on July nineteenth appellant, complained, after examination, that there was too much oil and water in the yarn, saying that he was buying wool, not oil and water. Again on July twenty-ninth appellant wrote respondent that he had shipped 249]^ pounds of the yarn to a specified dyeing works to be dyed, and only 231 pounds were returned, making a shrinkage of 18}4 pounds or seven and one-half per cent, making an excessive shrinkage, as yarns bought by him from others only shrunk from two to four per cent. He also complained that the yarn “ was very heavy in the hank,” and asked respondent to send no more goods till the shrinkage was adjusted and until he wrote further. On August
With this controversy existing between the parties, they entered on February 11, 1921, into an agreement in writing in the usual form for the arbitration of the disputes and differences between them. The two arbitrators named in the instrument met and agreed on a third, and the arbitration duly proceeded. All the proofs offered by the parties were heard, and the
“ First. We, the arbitrators in an arbitration in the case of D. Goff & Sons, Inc., against Daniel Rheinauer, doing business as the New York Knitting Mills, submitted to us, find that there is due to D. Goff & Sons from Daniel Rheinauer, Sixty-three Dollars and Seventy-nine cents ($63.79), and also interest on Two thousand one hundred and twenty-six Dollars and Twenty-five cents ($2,126.25) from the due date, to wit: August 10, 1920, until the date that the check was deposited for the account of D. Goff & Sons. Further than this there is nothing due to D. Goff & Sons from the New York Knitting Mills under the contract submitted.
“ Second. The cost and disbursements of the arbitration shall be divided equally between the parties.”
This award was attacked by the respondent herein, which moved to set it aside upon three of the grounds enumerated in section 2374, Code of Civil Procedure, viz.:
“ First. That the award was evidently the result of partiality; Second. That the arbitrators exceeded their powers; Third. That the arbitrators so imperfectly executed their powers that a definite award upon the subject matter submitted was not made.”
Of the first ground assigned, there is no proof whatever. The other two grounds may be considered together. They are based upon the contention that the award is inconsistent and illogical because the arbitrators, having found that appellant should pay the purchase price of the first installment in full, thereby determining that respondent had performed its contract as to that shipment, still awarded the latter no damages for the cancellation of the balance of the contract by appellant. And in this connection attention is called to the contention made by appellant’s counsel at the opening of the proceedings before the arbitrators, that if appellant was not justified in canceling the balance of the contract, the damage would be the difference in amount between the contract price of the goods and their market value at the time of cancellation, which amount appellant in answer to questions by his counsel fixed at about $2,700.
The record of the arbitration in question furnishes no ground for disturbing the award. The arbitrators accepted all the proofs adduced, which embraced all the matters in controversy between the parties and submitted to them for determination. While their conclusion may not be such as a cotut would have reached, they exercised their powers and completed their work. They neither exceeded nor imperfectly executed their powers, and their award is not open to attack upon these grounds. They may have concluded that, because appellant had used the goods included in the first shipment and not returned them, he must pay full price for them, but that, as the yarn was in fact defective and not up to contract requirements as appellant claimed, he was justified in canceling the contract, since respondent contended the goods were up to quality agreed to be sold and would not change the same. They may have had other grounds for their conclusions. Whatever they were is quite immaterial. The arbitrators acted impartially, within the powers confided to them by the
The order will be reversed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements, the motion to set aside awar'd denied and the motion to confirm award granted, with ten dollars costs.
Clarke, P. J., Smith, Page and Greenbatjm, JJ., concur.
Order reversed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements, motion to set aside award denied and motion to confirm award granted, with ten dollars costs.