Miyoi v. Gold Bond Stamp Co. Employees Retirement Trust
| Decision Date | 17 March 1972 |
| Docket Number | No. 43498,43498 |
| Citation | 196 N.W.2d 309,293 Minn. 376 |
| Court | Minnesota Supreme Court |
| Parties | Hirotaka MIYOI, Appellant, v. GOLD BOND STAMP COMPANY EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT TRUST, et al., Respondents. |
Shanedling, Phillips, Gross & Aaron, Minneapolis, for appellant.
Levitt, Palmer, Bowen, Bearmon & Rotman, Minneapolis, for respondents.
Considered by the court en banc.
This matter is before the court on a motion by defendants to dismiss plaintiff's appeal on the ground that the orders appealed from are not final or appealable orders.
Plaintiff was an employee of Premium Service Corporation (formerly Gold Bond Stamp Company). This corporation, prior to plaintiff's employment, had established a noncontributory retirement trust plan for the benefit of its employees. Defendants are the trust and trustees thereof. This retirement plan and trust agreement provide in effect that, should any employee be discharged for dishonesty, the amount standing to his credit would be forfeited subject to an arbitration proceeding for determination of whether the employer had just cause for the discharge.
Plaintiff's employment was terminated for alleged dishonesty to his employer. A notice was sent to him by the trustee-defendants that they had determined that there was cause for such discharge and that, unless plaintiff appealed for arbitration 'in accordance with the terms of the Plan' and succeeded in reversing the trustees' determination, he would forfeit all amounts due him under the plan.
Plaintiff brought this suit to recover the amount allegedly due him under the plan and to enjoin the arbitration proceeding on the grounds that he had not agreed to arbitrate any dispute arising under the plan. At the hearing on the application for stay of the arbitration proceeding, plaintiff invoked the Uniform Arbitration Act, Minn.St. c. 572. Following that hearing, in which defendants moved to dismiss a temporary ex parte order restraining the arbitration proceeding, the court, on November 5 and November 9, 1971, issued orders staying plaintiff's action until the arbitration could be completed; permitting plaintiff to name an independent arbiter; and vacating the temporary restraining order.
Plaintiff appeals to this court from those orders pursuant to Rule 103.03, Rules of Civil Appellate Procedure.
The orders of the district court appealed from are not appealable orders since they are not final orders. Plaintiff's appointment of an arbiter will not...
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