Law

Defendant appeals from a judgment entered in accordance with the award of arbitrators and from an order of the superior court refusing to vacate said award.

On or about the twentieth day of July, 1905, the plaintiffs entered into a contract with the defendant corporation by which the latter agreed to furnish steam for heating the “Monadnock,” “Rialto” and “Crossley” buildings situated in the city and county of San Francisco. At that time plaintiffs owned all three of these buildings. The steam was generated at the manufactory of defendant known as " Station C, ’ ’ and under the terms of the contract was to be delivered at a designated point to the pipes of plaintiffs running to said buildings. The corporation agreed to furnish steam for twenty-four hours a day at an approximate pressure of one hundred pounds and payment was to he made at the rate of one cent per cubic foot of distilled water returned through meters from the heating systems. The life of the agreement was to be ten years. Under this contract steam was delivered and paid for. On the sixteenth day of March, 1906, plaintiffs conveyed the Rialto and Crossley buildings to Mrs. Theresa A. Oelrichs. On that date the…