City Worcester v. Granger Bros‪.‬

Where the city of Worcester in its demands for arbitration of a number of disputes arising from the construction of the Worcester Civic Center raised claims that plans and specifications for the project and certain related services furnished by the developer were inadequate, and where the contract between the city and the developer specifically stated that the developer had obtained the necessary design services by its separate agreement with a named firm of architects and engineers, the arbitrators did not exceed their authority by finding that the city had not sustained any ""injury occasioned by any third party for whose acts any of the parties named might be liable, specifically including"" the firm of architects and engineers, even though the firm was not a party to any contract with the city or to the arbitration proceedings. [383-385] In an arbitration proceeding arising from the construction of a public works project for the city of Worcester, the arbitrators did not exceed their authority in ordering the city to indemnify the contractor on phase IV of the project ""in connection with any pending arbitration proceedings and litigation brought against [the contractor] by any hase IV subcontractor,"" despite the city's claims that there was no evidence before the arbitrators to support the order, that the order violated G. L. c. 44, § 31, as well as the terms of the contract in question, and that the order exceeded the arbitrators' powers by fashioning impermissible relief. [385-391]