MESSERSMITH, INC. v. BARCLAY TOWNHOUSE

No. 83, September Term, 1986.

313 Md. 652 (1988)

547 A.2d 1048

STEPHEN L. MESSERSMITH, INC. v. BARCLAY TOWNHOUSE ASSOCIATES ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

October 11, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald M. Miller (Paul N. Nussbaum, Sheldon L. Gnatt and Reichelt, Nussbaum, Brown, Dukes & LaPlaca, on the brief), Greenbelt, for petitioner.

Timothy L. Mullin, Jr. (Miles & Stockbridge, on the brief), Baltimore, for respondent.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY, COUCH and McAULIFFE, JJ., and CHARLES E. ORTH, Jr., Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals of Maryland (retired), Specially Assigned.


COLE, Judge.

In this case we shall determine the proper standard of review when a party to an arbitration proceeding moves to vacate the arbitration panel's award, claiming that because the parties never agreed to arbitrate, the panel lacked jurisdiction to decide the dispute. Specifically, we must decide whether the circuit court was correct in deferring to the arbitrators' decision to assert jurisdiction unless it was "completely irrational." In addition, we shall...

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