Safeway Insurance v. Parker

This is an appeal from an order denying plaintiff’s motion to vacate an arbitration award. Plaintiff contends that the arbitrators exceeded their powers by deciding that the defendants were covered under the uninsured motorist provision of a policy issued to defendant Jessie Parker and that the award should be vacated pursuant to the provisions of the Arbitration Act. Ill Rev Stats, c 10, § 112 (1967). The facts follow.

On May 16, 1965, defendants Jessie Parker and Eddie Mae Gardner were driving north on the Dan Ryan Expressway. An unidentified motorist swerved into their lane, forcing them to…