Hepburn v. Jones

Section 3, chapter 5, of Revised Statutes, provides, that “arbitrators shall not have power to act hereafter until they take an oath before some person authorized by law to administer oaths,” etc. This provision is imperative. The legislature evidently intended to give to parties submitting their controversies to arbitration, a tribunal acting under the sanction of an oath; and no valid award can be made, under the statute, if the arbitrators, or any one of them, fail to take the oath prescribed. Walt et al. v. Huse et al., 38 Mo. 210; Toler v. Hayden, 18 id. 400; Inslee v. Flagg, 2 Dutch.…