Payne v. McElya

The parties hereto agreed to submit to arbitration certain differences with reference to the dissolution of a partnership previously entered into by them. There was an attempt to make the arbitration a rule of court as provided in Section 2856, Revised General Statutes of Florida, 1920, but the record does not affirmatively show that the statement therein required was recorded in the minutes of the Court, which is a perequisite to vesting any power in the arbitrators.

It seems that the arbitrators and the umpire were regularly sworn and proceeded to a thorough investigation of the trust…