Legal Opinion

Sheets v. Rudebaugh

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided October 15, 1828PublishedCited by 3 opinions

Writ of error to a judgment rendered on a report of arbitrators in a cause in the Court of Common Pleas of Bradford county.

1Opinion of the Court

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Huston, J.

— The errors assignéd were errors in fact, and that principally relied on,, was, that Sheets had no notice to appear, and did not appear before the .arbitrators: that, in fact,.he was in the state of Ohio when they sat and decided the cause, and this was offered to be proved in this court.

The report, however, in the body of it stated, that the arbitrators heard the parties, their proofs and allegations; and it has been more than once decided, that what appears in the report cannot be contradicted in this court by affidavit: the judgment then…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Thompson v. WhiteSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1818

3Cited by3 opinions

  1. Finch v. LambertonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1870
  2. Biggs v. FunkSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1836
  3. Wells v. Scott, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County1836

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