Smitty's Super-Valu, Inc. v. Pasqualetti

OPINION

HAIRE, Presiding Judge.

On this appeal we must determine whether the trial judge committed error when he modified the arbitration award which was the subject of the trial court proceedings. The proceedings were initiated when the appellees, as successors to the lessors’ interests under a lease, filed an action seeking to void an arbitration award concerning rental payments under a lease wherein the appellant was the lessee. The lessee answered and filed a counterclaim seeking confirmation of the award.

The problem between the lessors and the lessee arose as a result of their failure to…