Hawes v. Coombs

Epaphias Hawes, William C. Coombs, and Andrew P. Jackson were partners in business. A difference arose about the settlement of their accounts. They entered into an agreement, as the writing says, “ to arbitrate the difference now existing between us in the following manner, *456•consisting of all our partnership business, comprising the manufacture of spirits, lumber, hominy, meal, pork, &c. We further agree to make this arbitration the rule of justice’s ■court,” &c. It then proceeds to name the persons who are to act as arbitrators, and to specify how, in some respects, the arbitration is to be…