Franklin Needle Co. v. American Federation

Plaintiff contends that the award of the board should have been set aside because the arbitrators exceeded the scope of their authority and fell into a plain mistake.

It maintains that the arbitrators exceeded their authority because (1) they “not only filled in the contract on points that they felt it was silent or deficient on, but went outside the scope of the contract to make their decision”; (2) they based their decision on what they considered to be the generally accepted practice in industry; (3) they considered the terms of the whole contract instead of limiting themselves to article…