Boulevard Associates v. Seltzer Partnership

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• stating that unless restricted by the agreement, appraisers are the final judges of both law and fact, “and an award will not be reviewed or set aside for mistake in either.”
• stating that the appraisers were acting within their authority in determining the valuation method as it was “exactly the type of decision that the parties had asked them to make and by which the parties agreed to be bound.”
• noting that “the scope of an appraisal provision was much more limited than the typical arbitration provision since the former provided only for resolution of issues of valuation and the latter provided for resolution of an entire controversy between the parties.”
• stating that the appraisers did not exceed their scope of authority in utilizing a valuation method wherein they considered the actual future use of the property, as the agreement did not restrict the appraisers’ ability to make a variety of decisions to set a value for the property
• “Limited judicial review also imposes finality in a contested matter. To permit anything but limited judicial review defeats the purpose of appraisal as well as arbitration.”
• scope of judicial review of an appraisal conducted pursuant to a private agreement analogous to that used to review private agreement providing for common law arbitration

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

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12 cases in this archive cite this case.

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  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-08-22· cited 81×
• Gargano v. Terminix International Co.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-10-02· cited 33×
• F.J. Busse Co. v. Sheila Zipporah, L.P.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-07-13· cited 33×
• McGourty v. Pennsylvania Millers Mutual Insurance
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-12-31· cited 23×
• Riley v. Farmers Fire Insurance Co.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-07-21· cited 22×
• Hozlock v. Donegal Companies/Donegal Mutual Insurance
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-01-31· cited 7×
• E. Allen Reeves v. Old York, LLC
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2023-04-13· cited 5×
• Doe, J. v. The Cheesecake Factory
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2023-08-09· cited 4×
• Heist v. Keystone Insurance
  Dauphin County Court of Common Pleas· 1997-03-19
• W.V. Realty Inc. v. Maryland Insurance Group
  Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas· 2000-05-15
• Stack v. Karavan Trailers Inc.
  Bucks County Court of Common Pleas· 2003-07-30
• TL Ventures III Management L.P. v. Fabbio
  Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas· 2011-01-10

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Brennan v. General Accident Fire & Life Assurance Corp.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-04-27· cited 72×
• Giant Markets, Inc. v. Sigma Marketing Systems, Inc.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-04-15· cited 39×
• Ice City, Inc. v. Insurance Co. of North America
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-01-24· cited 32×
• Garages v. Transport Workers Union of America
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1962-01-03· cited 30×
• Gwin Engineers, Inc. v. Cricket Club Estates Development Group
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-03-15· cited 15×