In re the Arbitration between Grayson-Robinson Stores, Inc. & Iris Construction Corp.

Van Voorhis, J. (dissenting).

If “ Arbitration is not merely a step in judicial enforcement of a claim nor auxiliary to a main proceeding, but the full relief sought” (Goodall-Sanford v. Textile Workers, 353 U. S. 550, 551), it would relieve the courts if the arbitrators enforced their own awards in specific performance instead of delegating that essential function to the courts after they have been discharged from further duty. Only recently was it settled that an arbitration award will be enforced by the courts which grants, under an appropriate arbitration clause, equitable relief by…