Hopper v. Fromm

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mason, J.:

The question presented is whether the trial court erred in holding that the allegations of a pleading were sufficient to show that an arbitration had resulted in an award binding upon the parties. It was alleged that two of the three arbitrators had signed a writing purporting to be such &n award. The appellant contends that the absence of the signature of the third arbitrator is fatal to its validity. The accepted rule is that an agreement to submit a controversy to the decision of a number of arbitrators, in the absence of a provision to…