Joseph L. Wilmotte & Co. v. Rosenman Bros.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting the weakening of the common law rule and enforcing ine arbitration agreement under New York law
• stating that “Restatement Second, Conflicts of Law, section 187, permits the parties to agree on the law to be applied to the contract in most cases so long as it does not override the public policy of a state having a materially greater interest in the transaction”
• stating that “Restatement Second, Conflicts of Law, section 187, permits the parties to agree on the law to be applied to the contract in most cases so long as it does not override the public policy of a state having a materially greater interest in the transaction”
• “a party is usually bound by the documents he signs even though ... [he] has not expressly accepted all of the contract provisions or is even aware of them”
• party in arbitration claim held to language on the back of a contract when language on the front of the contract read “subject to the general conditions of sales, when on the reverse side”
• “[I]f a party to a contract ... fails to read the contract he cannot thereafter be heard to say that he was ignorant of its terms and conditions for the purpose of relieving himself from its obligation.” (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).