Legal Opinion
Fleet Construction Co. v. Town of North Smithfield
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Decided May 22, 1998No. 97-178-AppealPublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
2Per curiam
This appeal concerns the propriety of an arbitration award in a dispute between a municipality and a contractor over a construction project. The defendant, the town of North Smithfield (town), appeals from a Superior Court order granting the motion of the plaintiff, Fleet Construction Co., Inc. (Fleet), to confirm an arbitration award and denying the defendant’s motion to vacate the award. We directed both parties to show cause before a panel of this Court why the issues raised in this appeal should not be summarily decided. No such cause having been shown, we proceed to decide the…
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