Granger Northern, Inc. v. Cianchette

CLIFFORD, Justice.

The four defendants, Eric Cianchette, Kenneth Cianchette, A. Earl Brown and William Brown, appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court (Cumberland County, Fritzsche, J.) affirming an arbitrator’s award in favor of the plaintiff, Granger Northern, Inc. We reject the defendants’ contentions that the dispute was not arbi-trable and that the arbitrator exceeded his authority and affirm the judgment.

In 1985, Granger Northern, Inc. (“Gran-ger”) contracted with Armory Hotel Associates (“Associates”) 1 for the design and construction of a luxury hotel in Portland, to be called the…