Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-16
BOARD Of TRADE
ARBITRATION IS
AGAIN |NDORSED
S. W. Boardman Urges Settle
rnent of Disputes Outside
the Courts.

Samuel w. Boardman, a Newark
lawyer, who has been urging the
Board Of Trade to make wider use of
its arbitration committee, especially
In the settlement of disputes which
cause suits in the civil courts, has
written an open letter to the board
citing the progress of cases in the
April term of the Essex County Cir
cult Court as an argument for his
plan. He says:
THE printed list, issued at the open
Ing of the April term, 1914, contained
248 cases, numbered 300 to 574, inclu-
sive. The latest case which has been
reached is the ninety-third case,
while a large number of the thirty
two cases ahead of this have been put
off for the term or otherwise disposed
of without trial. The term opened
April Z and in the course of these
thirteen weeks there have been treid
some twenty-three cases.
Three of the cases at the begin
ming of the list were commenced be-
fore the opening Of the April term,
1911, as was also the seventh. The
nth case was begun in 1910. The
fourth and sixth were commenced in
the early part of April, 1911. The
eighth, ninth and tenth in the latter
part of the same year The next
twenty were begun more than a year
ago.
"Six cases In which 1 appear as at
torney were on the list for the April
term, five of which it was evident
almost from the beginning could not
be reached then; they may not be
reached even at the September term.
The other one, to which l refer be-
low, was almost reached, but the old
proverb, "A miss Is as good as a
mile" was we'll illustrated by the
adjournment of the court until Sep
TENDER. after this case had been in
the days list" for more than a week.
in contrast to all this slowness of
procedure, cases brought before your
arbitration committee could be heard
and decided Undoubtedly within a
month of the time that they were
| first submitted and unless there was
some special cause to the contrary
within perhaps two weeks. Another
advantage of the submission of dis
pute to your committee is that your
charter allows no new trials or ap-
peaIs but establishes the decision of
your committee and the Judgment
which may be entered thereupon as
| final.
"As / stated in my communication
| of April 20, one of my clients, Mr..
| Thomas Birvan, of Blen Ridge, had
| commenced suit In August, 1913, IN the
| Essex Circuit Court. against j. w.
| HIATT. only because the latter declined
| to submit to arbitration either before
| your committee or before other arbi-
| traitors. The suit although listed for
| trial at the September and the De-
cember terms, 1918 and at the April
| term, 1914, was not actually reached,
and must now wait until perhaps the
| first of October, that is. until the Sep
| TENDER term, 1914, is fairly launched
| and the term does not open until Sep
| tember Is next.
THE only alternative Is to have
the matter referred to a referee, which
| Mr.. Girvan will agree to, or to SUBJ
| init the matter to your honorable
body by mutual consent, as provided
in your charter. I trust that wou
may now be able to induce Mr. HIATT,
| who. like Mr.. Girvan, Is one Of your
member to have the matter disposed
of this summer before your arbitra-
ton committee.
w. BOARDMAN, JR.