Blood v. Bates
Supreme Court of Vermont
Debt on an award of arbitrators, dated October 18th, 1855. Plea, the general issue, and trial by the court, at the November Term, 1856, of the Chittenden County Court, ^Poland, J., presiding. The defendant admitted the submission to the arbitrators as stated in the declaration, and proved by parol evidence that the arbitrators and parties met and commenced the arbitration on Friday, the 12th of October, 1855, and that the hearing was continued through that day and the next.
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Debt on an award of arbitrators, dated October 18th, 1855. Plea, the general issue, and trial by the court, at the November Term, 1856, of the Chittenden County Court, ^Poland, J., presiding. The defendant admitted the submission to the arbitrators as stated in the declaration, and proved by parol evidence that the arbitrators and parties met and commenced the arbitration on Friday, the 12th of October, 1855, and that the hearing was continued through that day and the next. The argument was concluded about midnight on Saturday, and the arbitrators retired for consultation a few minutes after…
1Opinion of the CourtPierpoint, J.
This is an action on an award of arbitrators, to which the defendant pleaded the general issue, and on the trial proved that the hearing before the arbitrators who made the award, was concluded about twelve o’clock on Saturday night; that the arbitrators then retired for consultation, and returned and published their award about three o’clock the next morning. The defendant insists that the award is void, as having been published both in violation of the common law and the statute relating to the “observance of the Sabbath.”
On the part of the plaintiff it is insisted that this defence can not…
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