Court Opinion

ID: 5583883
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-11 01:47:44.107345+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:36:10.238989
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Atkinson, J.,
concurring. Construing tbn petition most strongly against the pleader, the sole ground of attack upon the award was that the valuation placed upon the property was so grossly inadequate as to show fraud upon the part of the arbitrators. The assignments of error in the bill of exceptions are limited to that question. Under the act by virtue of which the arbitration was had, Political Code, § 1116(d), the arbitrators had jurisdiction, and their power was limited to the question of valuation of the property, and their decision was final. Valuation of property was necessarily a matter of opinion. It would require actual fraud or corruption on the part of the arbitrators, to set aside the award. In this view the allegations of the petition were insufficient to show fraud, and the court properly dismissed the petition on demurrer. In view of the record in the trial court and the assignments of error in the bill of exceptions, it is unnecessary to make a ruling as to the applicability or effect of the act of 1918.