Case Name: In the Matter of the Petition of Red Cross Line, Respondent, for an Order Directing Atlantic Fruit Company, Appellant, to Proceed to Arbitration
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1922-02-03
Citations: 232 N.Y. 629
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of the Petition of Red Cross Line, Respondent, for an Order Directing Atlantic Fruit Company, Appellant, to Proceed to Arbitration.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 232
Pages: 629–629

Head Matter:
In the Matter of the Petition of Red Cross Line, Respondent, for an Order Directing Atlantic Fruit Company, Appellant, to Proceed to Arbitration.
Appeal — motion to dismiss on ground that constitutional question was not directly involved, denied.
Reported below, 199 App. Div. 961.
(Submitted January 30, 1922;
decided February 3, 1922.)
Motion to dismiss an appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered December 9, 1921, which affirmed an order of Special Term directing the appellant herein to proceed to arbitrate a dispute. Appellant con-' tended that the Arbitration Law was unconstitutional.
The motion was made upon the ground that the appeal was not “ from a judgment or order which finally determines an action or special proceeding where is directly involved the construction of the Constitution of the State or of the United States.”
Homer L. Loomis and Reginal B. Williams for motion.
John W. Crandall and E. R. Rapallo opposed.

Opinion:
Motion denied, without costs and without prejudice to renewal of motion on argument.