Dickie Manufacturing Co. v. Sound Construction & Engineering Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Frater, J., entered December 2, 1915, dismissing an action to cancel a judgment upon an arbitration and award upon sustaining a demurrer to the complaint.
1Opinion of the CourtBausman, J.
This is an appeal from an order sustaining a demurrer to a petition which sought to declare void a judgment upon an award of arbitration.
In Rem. & Bal. Code, § 420 et seq., we have a comprehensive statute. An agreement to arbitrate must be in writing; each party must appoint one arbitrator; these two must appoint a third, and all must subscribe an oath to make a just award. The board has the right to compel attendance of witnesses, to hear evidence, to adjourn as and for what period it pleases, to decide both law and fact, and to punish for contempt. It is, in short, a temporary court of…
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