M.NAIR, WALLACE
Ramaswami Chettiar – Appellant
Versus
Venkatarama Iyer – Respondent
1. Those two civil revision petitions are presented against the order of the District Munsif of Mayavaram confirming an award in the matters in dispute in O.S. No. 505 of 1919 on his file, dismissing petitioners objections and granting the respondents a decree in accordance therewith. The petitioners challenge the order on various grounds, the chief contention being that the arbitrators decided two matters beyond the scope of the reference and, therefore, beyond their jurisdiction, and, therefore, the lower Court, in accepting their decision on these points and incorporating it in its decree, has exceeded its jurisdiction. The arbitration was in the matter of the dissolution of partnership between the six plaintiffs in the suit and the defendants, who were jointly working a mill concern. The reference to arbitration, Ex. A, gave the arbitrators authority, inter alia, to sell the property, moveable and immoveable, by public auction to the highest bidder, whether he be a partner or a stranger, to collect the sale-proceeds and to distribute them among the partners according to the interests they had in the concern. The arbitrators were also to sell book debts and out standings
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