Grudem Brothers Co. v. Great Western Piping Corp.

This is an appeal from an order of Hennepin County District Court denying the motion of plaintiff to vacate an award of arbitration for fraud and perjury and disallowing the right of offset against the award.1 We affirm.

The dispute had arisen between plaintiff, Grudem Brothers Co., a mechanical contractor, and defendant, Great Western Piping Corporation, its excavating subcontractor, concerning liability for certain work performed in the construction of aeration tanks at the Pig’s Eye Sewage Treatment Plant in St. Paul, Minnesota. By written agreement dated July 7, 1971, the parties had…