Burchell v. Marsh

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• applying common law arbitration principles and stating that “[i]f an award is within the submission, and contains the honest decision of the arbitrators, after a full and fair hearing of the parties, a court of equity will not set it aside for error, either in law or fact”
• to warrant reversal because of an arbitrator’s mistake in the conduct of the hearing, party must show that “if it had not happened, [the arbitrator] should have made a different award”
• the appropriate scope of judicial review is whether the award is the honest decision of the arbitrator, made within the scope of the arbitrator’s power
• gross mistake, not mere error of judgment, required for court to intervene
• gross mistake, not mere error of judgment, required for court to intervene
• “If the award is within the submission, and contains the honest decision of the arbitrators, after a full and fair hearing of the parties, a court of equity will not set it aside for error.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).