Park Construction Co. v. Independent School District No. 32

Defendant contended that the contract stipulated for a statutory arbitration under 2 Mason Minn. St. 1927, § 9514, which would have brought the arbitration under the supervision of the court as we held in Holdridge v. Stowell, 39 Minn. 360,40 N.W. 259. Although it admitted that the contract called for a statutory arbitration, plaintiff claimed that it was entitled to proceed as at common law because of the failure of the parties to execute a submission under § 9514. Defendant refused to arbitrate altogether except under the statute. It refused to arbitrate at common law. That was an effective…