MTR. OF DE LAURENTIIS (CINEMATOGRAFICA)


9 N.Y.2d 503 (1961)

In the Matter of the Arbitration between Dino De Laurentiis, Appellant, and Cinematografica de Las Americas, S. A., et al., Respondents.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided April 27, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mathias F. Correa, John W. Nields, Marshall H. Cox, Jr., Jacob W. Abraham and Edmund B. Hennefeld for appellant.

Murray Gartner and Richard H. Borow for respondents.

Judges DYE, FULD, BURKE and FOSTER concur with Chief Judge DESMOND; Judge FROESSEL concurs in result in a separate memorandum; Judge VAN VOORHIS dissents in an opinion.


Chief Judge DESMOND.

We granted petitioner leave to appeal so that we might consider certain problems in the law of arbitration.

In 1957 petitioner De Laurentiis, an Italian producer of motion pictures, respondent Cinematografica, a Panamanian corporation which distributes films, and respondent Enrique Campos Menendez, an author (herein called "Campos"), made a written agreement whereby the three parties...

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