Lidgerwood Park Water Works Co. v. City of Spokane

Citations

• 19 Wash. 365
• 53 P. 352
• 1898 Wash. LEXIS 385

Syllabus

<p>ARBITRATION AND AWARD — AGREEMENT FOR — RIGHT OF ACTION FOR FAILURE — DEMAND NECESSARY.</p> <p>Where, a water works plant in an outlying addition has been transferred to a city in consideration of the city’s connecting same with, and maintaining it as a part of, its general system, of water works, a provision in the contract that the city shall pay on or before a given date, whatever sum certain named officers as an arbitration board may agree upon as further compensation, makes it incumbent on the se Her to demand that the arbitrators proceed to arbitrate before the expiration of that date, in order to give him any right of action against the city by reason of their failure.</p> <p>An agreement for arbitration is not void by reason of a stipulation that the finding of the arbitrators should be approved by the city council in order to be binding upon the city, since such provision merely constitutes the council a member of the board of arbitrators. .</p>