Thomasville Chair Co. v. United Furniture Workers of America

No procedural question is raised. No facts are in dispute. The only ground upon which the award of the arbitrators is attacked by plaintiff’s motion or action is that the award is not within the scope of the agreement and that the arbitrators exceeded their powers.

The arbitration in this case was not instituted under the provisions of the statute, G.S. 1-544, eb seq., hut it was said in Copney v. Parks, 212 N.C. 217, 193 S.E. 21, “that the statutory methods of arbitration are to be regarded merely as constituting an enlargement on the common-law rule, and that the provisions of the statute…