Court Opinion

ID: 9650697
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 15:49:13.085098+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:22:31.226685
License: Public Domain

CLARK, Circuit Judge
(dissenting).
On the opinion’s premises, these two modifications are just and necessary. The first is a retreat from the extreme position of a grant of summary judgment (notwithstanding protestations critical of the practice) upon a factual conclusion directly contrary to that of Judge Knox and myself. With such a disagreement as to the facts, trial and formal findings on the testimony adduced are needed. The second is an acceptance, in part at least, of the arbitrator selected by the parties, in place of the substitution of a new arbitrator — the district judge — imposed by the court. This is desirable practically, as well as legally, in view of the vagueness and ambiguity in which this question of value is now left; at least it may then be passed upon by experienced engineers, rather than by an uninformed district judge. But all this, I think, points up the more the view I originally urged that no legal justification had been shown for upsetting the'studied conclusion of the original arbitration.