Spence, Bryson, Inc. v. China Products Co.

The parties submitted to arbitration. The arbitrators made an award in favor of the plaintiff, and at the hearing before a judge of the Superior Court, who found for the plaintiff, the defendant excepted to the denial of certain requests for rulings, and also to the allowance of the plaintiff's motion to substitute the original award for the copy that had previously been filed with the clerk of the Superior Court. See Franks v. Franks, 294 Mass. 262, 268, and cases cited.

The bill of exceptions states unqualifiedly that the amount of the award of the arbitrators “represented the damages to the…