Copney v. . Parks

The defendant concedes that there was evidence to support the verdict, but contends that by chapter 94, Acts of 1927, known as the Uniform Arbitration Act, an exclusive method for the determination of matters by arbitration was prescribed, and that plaintiff’s action to enforce an award based upon a parol agreement, not in accordance with the act, cannot be maintained.

The Uniform Arbitration Act of 1927 (codified in Micbie’s N. C. Code as secs. 898 [a] to 898 [x] ) provides that: “Two or more parties may agree in writing to submit to arbitration, in conformity with the provisions of this…