Court Opinion

ID: 9865161
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-25 16:25:38.282791+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:37:41.112885
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*157Mr. Chiee Justice Campbell,
dissenting.
Chapter 27 of onr Code of Civil Procedure of 1921, page 161, provides for a method of submitting controversies to arbitration and the entry of judgment in the district court upon the award of the arbitrators.
The plaintiff Noff singer brought this action under the provisions of this chapter and no question is raised here as to its propriety. It was for an accounting. The issues were submitted to three arbitrators. Both parties produced evidence. Upon this evidence there was an award by two of the three against the plaintiff Noffsinger, the third arbitrator dissenting. Plaintiff sought to impeach the award under section 320 of the Code, but the trial court found against him and rendered judgment accordingly and he is here with his writ of error thereto. His chief reliance for reversal is that the adverse judgment against him was improperly and corruptly procured by one of the arbitrators. There is no controversy as to the law of the case upon the evidence produced. The sole contention of the plaintiff in error, as indicated, is that the findings of the arbitrators as to the facts are wrong and the trial court’s judgment thereon is, therefore, wrong and should be reversed. The evidence is in conflict. There was no prejudicial error in the court’s rulings upon the admission and rejection of evidence, and the facts elicited by the defendant, if believed by the majority of the arbitrators, as they evidently were, are legally sufficient in my opinion, considering the record as a whole, to sustain the award of the arbitrators and the judgment thereon. Hence, I think it should be affirmed.