New York Court of Appeals
In the Matter of the Arbitration between Vigo Steamship Corporation, and Marship Corporation of Monrovia, Respondent…
February 19, 197026 N.Y.2d 157
Summary
The New York Court of Appeals reversed the Appellate Division and reinstated Special Term’s order consolidating two arbitrations, holding that common questions of law and fact existed and Snare failed to show prejudice, and that state procedural law, not federal law, governs the consolidation issue.