Court Opinion

ID: 9583731
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 22:41:35.773637+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:58:52.009743
License: Public Domain

DISSENTING OPINION OF
KIDWELL, J.
I respectfully dissent.
My disagreement with the majority centers in the interpretation of the two stipulations. The majority concludes that the submission of the dispute to the arbitrators by the first stipulation empowered them to make the award in issue here, and that the second stipulation did not limit that power. I would read the instructions contained in the second stipulation as a constraint upon the powers granted in the first stipulation, so that the effort of the arbitrators to devise a remedy different from that upon which the parties agreed in the second stipulation was in excess of their powers.
I would reverse the judgment and direct the entry of a judgment vacating the award.